קוֹמַת֙ הַכְּר֣וּב הָֽאֶחָ֔ד עֶ֖שֶׂר בָּֽאַמָּ֑ה וְכֵ֖ן הַכְּר֥וּב הַשֵּׁנִֽי
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Kings 6:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 6:26 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.
English Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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King James Version Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit, and thus the second cherub.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
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King James Version Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other Cherub.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
the height of the one cherub `is' ten by the cubit, and so `is' the second cherub;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the height of the first cherub [is] ten by the cubit, and so [is] the second cherub;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The height of one cherub was ten cubits and the other cherub was the same.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit, and thus the second cherub.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the other cherub.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The hight of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Both cherubs were ten cubits tall.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The two of them were ten cubits high.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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קוֹמַת֙
qôwmâh
H6967
“height of”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 46× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 6:15
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
height
- height, stature
- height
- קוֹמַת֙ qôwmâh H6967 “height of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַכְּר֣וּב kᵉrûwb H3742 “the · cherub” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הָֽאֶחָ֔ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עֶ֖שֶׂר ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- בָּֽאַמָּ֑ה ʼammâh H520 “in/at the · cubit” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְכֵ֖ן kên H3651 “and · thus” Conjunction + Particle, Demonstrative
- הַכְּר֥וּב kᵉrûwb H3742 “the · cherub” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הַשֵּׁנִֽי shênîy H8145 “the · second” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קוֹמַת֙ height H6967 occurs in 43 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 3 adjectives
- 1 particle
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הַכְּר֣וּב cherub H3742 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 18 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.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ὁ ὕψος ὁ χερουβ ὁ εἷς δέκα ἐν πῆχυς καί οὕτως ὁ χερουβ ὁ δεύτερος
And the height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it with the second cherub.
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)
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.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
רוּמֵיהּ דִכְרוּבָא חָד עֲסַר אַמִין וְכֵן כְּרוּבָא תִנְיָנָא:
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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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qôwmâh (“height”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “height” (qôwmâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 6:15, which shares the word «height», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “cherub” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- 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?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “cherub” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 6:26 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.