וְקִ֧ישׁ אֲבִֽי שָׁא֛וּל וְנֵ֥ר אֲבִֽי אַבְנֵ֖ר בֶּן אֲבִיאֵֽל
Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Samuel 14:51
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Samuel 14:51 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
Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Now Kish the father of Saul and Ner the father of Abner the son of Abiel.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Kish was Sauls father: and Ner the father of Abner was the sonne of Abiel.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
For Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, was son of Abiel.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Kish `is' father of Saul, and Ner father of Abner `is' son of Ahiel.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Kish [is] the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, [is] the son of Ahiel.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Kish was Saul's father; and Ner, the father of Abner, was the son of Abiel.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Now Kish the father of Saul and Ner the father of Abner the son of Abiel.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Kish the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner were sons of Abiel.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Saul's father Kish and Abner's father Ner were sons of Abiel.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were sons of Abiel.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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אֲבִיאֵֽל
ʼĂbîyʼêl
H22
“Abiel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Samuel 9:1
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Abiel = "El (God) is (my) father"
- Saul's grandfather
- וְקִ֧ישׁ Qîysh H7027 “and · Kish” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- אֲבִֽי ʼâb H1 “father of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שָׁא֛וּל Shâʼûwl H7586 “Saul” Noun, Proper
- וְנֵ֥ר Nêr H5369 “and · Ner” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- אֲבִֽי ʼâb H1 “father of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אַבְנֵ֖ר ʼAbnêr H74 “Abner” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֲבִיאֵֽל ʼĂbîyʼêl H22 “Abiel” Noun, Proper
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
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אֲבִיאֵֽל Abiel H22 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֲבִיאֵֽל Abiel H22 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 8 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אֲבִֽי father H1 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 12 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 Samuel 14:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
- 1 Samuel 9:21 Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
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 κις πατήρ σαούλ καί νηρ πατήρ αβεννηρ υἱός ιαμιν υἱός αβιηλ
And Kis was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abenezer, was son of Jamin, son of Abiel.
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)
וְקִישׁ אֲבוּהִי דְשָׁאוּל וְנֵר אֲבוּהִי דְאַבְנֵר בַּר אֲבִיאֵל:
(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.
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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyʼêl (“Abiel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Abiel” (ʼĂbîyʼêl) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does 1 Samuel 9:1, which shares the word «Abiel», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “father” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
- “father” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 14:51 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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — 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.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — 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.