1 Kings 22:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 22:33 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And it happened, when the commanders of the chariotry saw that he not the king of Israel, that they turned back from after him.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And when the captaines of the charets saw that he was not the King of Israel, they turned backe from him.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the king of and they turned away from him.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and it cometh to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that he `is' not the king of Israel, that they turn back from after him.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and it comes to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that he [is] not the king of Israel, that they turn back from after him.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    It came about that when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And it happened, when the commanders of the chariotry saw that he not the king of Israel, that they turned back from after him.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And it came to pass that when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the chariot commanders saw it wasn't the king of Israel and stopped chasing him.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

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הָרֶ֔כֶב
rekeb
H7393
“the · chariot”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7392

TWOT: 2163a

a team, chariot, chariotry, mill-stone, riders - chariotry, chariots - chariot (single) - upper millstone (as riding on lower millstone) - riders, troop (of riders), horsemen, pair of horsemen, men riding, ass-riders, camel-riders
  1. וַיְהִ֗י hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. כִּרְאוֹת֙ râʼâh H7200 “like/as · to see” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  3. שָׂרֵ֣י sar H8269 “princes of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. כִּֽי kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
  5. לֹא lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
  6. מֶ֥לֶךְ melek H4428 “king of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  8. ה֑וּא hûwʼ H1931 “he” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. וַיָּשׁ֖וּבוּ shûwb H7725 “and · to return” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  10. מֵאַחֲרָֽיו ʼachar H310 “from · after · him” Preposition + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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11
words
11
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 conjunction
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיְהִ֗י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • כִּרְאוֹת֙ Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • וַיָּשׁ֖וּבוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 22:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Psalms 76:10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
  • 1 Kings 22:31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 1 Kings 22:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְהִ֗י כִּרְאוֹת֙ שָׂרֵ֣י הָרֶ֔כֶב כִּֽי לֹא מֶ֥לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל ה֑וּא וַיָּשׁ֖וּבוּ מֵאַחֲרָֽיו

It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 22:33 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γίγνομαι ὡς ὁράω ὁ ἄρχων ὁ ἅρμα ὅτι οὐ εἰμί βασιλεύς ἰσραήλ οὗτος καί ἀποστρέφω ἀπό αὐτός

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that this was not the king of Israel, that they returned from him.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַהֲוָה כַּד חֲזּוֹ רַבָּנֵי רְתִיכַיָא אֲרֵי לָא מַלְכָּא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל הוּא וְתָבוּ מֵאֲחוֹרוֹהִי:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 22:33 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it [was] not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

Ver. 33. They turned back from pursuing him.] By a sweet providence of God, in whose sight the death of his saints is precious. {Psa 116:15}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

33. when the captains … perceived that it was not the king of Israel] From this it is plain that the pursuers gathered, by the cry, knowledge that it was Jehoshaphat. A cry of supplication would have been no guide to them, but a shout of ‘Judah to the rescue,’ or some similar word, might make them aware that the king they were approaching was the king of Judah.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

So the king died, and they brought him to Samaria,.... In the chariot he died in:

and they buried the king in Samaria; where his father Omri was buried, Kg1 16:28.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

When the captains perceived that it was not the king of Israel; which they easily perceived, either by the words uttered to God or them, or by the difference of his shape and countenance from that of Ahab, which probably many of them very well knew.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived in what way we are not told. But Ahab would be known to some of them, ch. 20:31 that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is rekeb (“chariot”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word rekeb carries the sense “chariot.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Psalms 76:10, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. «וַיְהִ֗י» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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