For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
For the cherubs were spreading wings toward the place of the Box, and the cherubs covered over the Box and over its poles from above.
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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke, and the barres thereof aboue.
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the art, and the staves thereof above.
for the cherubs are spreading forth two wings unto the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the ark, and over its staves from above;
for the cherubim are spreading forth two wings to the place of the Ark, and the cherubim cover over the Ark, and over its poles from above;
For the cherubim spread out their wings to the place of the ark, and they covered the ark and the poles by which it was carried.
For the cherubs were spreading wings toward the place of the Box, and the cherubs covered over the Box and over its poles from above.
for the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.
For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staffs thereof above.
The cherubim spread their wings over the place where the Ark was, covering the Ark and its carrying poles.
For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וַיָּסֹ֧כּוּ to cover H5526 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַיָּסֹ֧כּוּ to cover H5526 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 24 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.
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.
כִּ֤י הַכְּרוּבִים֙ פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים כְּנָפַ֔יִם אֶל מְק֖וֹם הָֽאָר֑וֹן וַיָּסֹ֧כּוּ הַכְּרֻבִ֛ים עַל הָאָר֥וֹן וְעַל בַּדָּ֖יו מִלְמָֽעְלָה
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὅτι ὁ χερουβιν διαπετάζω ὁ πτέρυξ ἐπί ὁ τόπος ὁ κιβωτός καί περικαλύπτω ὁ χερουβιν ἐπί ὁ κιβωτός καί ἐπί ὁ ἅγιος αὐτός ἐπάνωθεν
For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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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.
אֲרֵי כְרוּבַיָא פְּרִיסַן גַדְפֵיהוֹן עַל אֲתַר אֲרוֹנָא וּמַטְלִין כְּרוּבַיָא עַל אֲרוֹנָא וְעַל אֲרִיחוֹהִי מִלְעֵילָא:
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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.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çâkak (“to cover”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 8:7 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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.