וְאֶת הַיָּ֖ם הָאֶחָ֑ד וְאֶת הַבָּקָ֥ר שְׁנֵים עָשָׂ֖ר תַּ֥חַת הַיָּֽם
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Kings 7:44
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 7:44 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
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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King James Version Public Domain
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the one sea, and the 12 cattle under the sea,
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
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
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King James Version Public Domain
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sea, and twelue bulles vnder that sea,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the one sea, the twelve oxen under the sea,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the one sea, the twelve oxen under the sea,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He made the large basin called “The Sea” with its twelve oxen under it;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the one sea, and the 12 cattle under the sea,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the Sea; the twelve bulls under the Sea;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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הַבָּקָ֥ר
bâqâr
H1241
“the · cattle”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 183× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 12:16
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
cattle, herd, oxen, ox
- cattle (generic plural but singular in form - collective)
- herd (particular one)
- head of cattle (individually)
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַיָּ֖ם yâm H3220 “the · sea” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הָאֶחָ֑ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַבָּקָ֥ר bâqâr H1241 “the · cattle” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- שְׁנֵים shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
- עָשָׂ֖ר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- תַּ֥חַת tachath H8478 “under” Preposition
- הַיָּֽם yâm H3220 “the · sea” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 3 adjectives
- 1 preposition
- 2 particles
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הַיָּ֖ם sea H3220 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 11 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
2Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 7:44 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 7:23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 1 Kings 7:25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 αιλαμ ὁ θρόνος ὅς κρίνω ἐκεῖ αιλαμ ὁ κριτήριον
And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.
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)
וְיַת יַמָא חָד וְיַת תּוֹרֵי תְּרֵי עֲסַר תְּחוֹת יַמָא:
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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 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâqâr (“cattle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word bâqâr carries the sense “cattle.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 Kings 7:23 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “sea” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- 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?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “sea” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 7:44 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.
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.