nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
However, you, you will not build the house, but rather your son coming out from your loins, he, he will build the house for my name.’
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nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Neuerthelesse thou shalt not builde the house, but thy sonne that shall come out of thy loynes, he shall builde the house vnto my Name.
Nevertheless thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
only, thou dost not build the house, but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.
only, you do not build the house, but your son who is coming out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.
Nevertheless you will not build the house; instead, your son, one who will be born from your loins, will build the house for my name.'
However, you, you will not build the house, but rather your son coming out from your loins, he, he will build the house for my name.’
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
Nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house to my name.
But it won't be you who will build this Temple, but your son who is to be born to you—he will build the Temple to honor me.'
But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for My name.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מֵחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ loins H2504 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מֵחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ loins H2504 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 24 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.
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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.
רַ֣ק אַתָּ֔ה לֹ֥א תִבְנֶ֖ה הַבָּ֑יִת כִּ֤י אִם בִּנְךָ֙ הַיֹּצֵ֣א מֵחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ הֽוּא יִבְנֶ֥ה הַבַּ֖יִת לִשְׁמִֽי
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
World English Bible · Public Domain
πλήν σύ οὐ οἰκοδομέω ὁ οἶκος ἀλλά ὅς ὁ υἱός σύ ὁ ἐκἔρχομαι ἐκ ὁ πλευρά σύ οὗτος οἰκοδομέω ὁ οἶκος ὁ ὄνομα ἐγώ
Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son that has proceeded out of your bowels, he shall build the house to my name.
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 →
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.
לְחוֹד אַתְּ לָא תִבְנֵי בֵיתָא אֱלָהֵין בַּר דְתוֹלִיד הוּא יִבְנֵי בֵיתָא לִשְׁמִי:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châlâts (“loins”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 8:19 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
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
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
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.