וַיְהִי֙ כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ בַּעְשָׁ֔א וַיֶּחְדַּ֕ל מִבְּנ֖וֹת אֶת הָרָמָ֑ה וַיַּשְׁבֵּ֖ת אֶת מְלַאכְתּֽוֹ
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 16:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 16:5 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
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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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
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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King James Version Public Domain
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And it happened when Baasha heard, then he ceased building Ramah, and he stopped his work.
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
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.
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King James Version Public Domain
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And when Baasha heard it, he left building of Ramah, and let his worke cease.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and interrupted his work.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And it cometh to pass, at Baasha's hearing, that he ceaseth from building Ramah, and letteth his work rest;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And it comes to pass, at Baasha’s hearing, that he ceases from building Ramah, and lets his work rest;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
It came about that when Baasha heard this, he stopped building up Ramah, and let his work cease.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And it happened when Baasha heard, then he ceased building Ramah, and he stopped his work.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And it came to pass when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off the building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
When Baasha heard about it, he stopped fortifying Ramah and gave up his project.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And it came to pass, when Baasa heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
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בַּעְשָׁ֔א
Baʻshâʼ
H1201
“Baasha”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 28× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Kings 15:16
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Baasha = "wicked"
- third king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the founder of its second dynasty having killed the second king, Nadab
- וַיְהִי֙ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ shâmaʻ H8085 “like/as · to hear” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- בַּעְשָׁ֔א Baʻshâʼ H1201 “Baasha” Noun, Proper
- וַיֶּחְדַּ֕ל châdal H2308 “and · to cease” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִבְּנ֖וֹת bânâh H1129 “from · to build” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הָרָמָ֑ה Râmâh H7414 “the · Ramah” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- וַיַּשְׁבֵּ֖ת shâbath H7673 “and · to cease” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- מְלַאכְתּֽוֹ mᵉlâʼkâh H4399 “work · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 10
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בַּעְשָׁ֔א Baasha H1201 occurs in 26 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַיְהִי֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ Qal · Infinitive Construct
- וַיֶּחְדַּ֕ל Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- מִבְּנ֖וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
- וַיַּשְׁבֵּ֖ת Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 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.
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 γίγνομαι ἐν ὁ ἀκούω βαασα ἀπολείπω ὁ μηκέτι οἰκοδομέω ὁ ραμα καί καταπαύω ὁ ἔργον αὐτός
And it came to pass when Baasa heard it he left off building Rama, and put a stop to his work:
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
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.
2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Baʻshâʼ (“Baasha”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Baʻshâʼ carries the sense “Baasha.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 Kings 15:16 shares the word «Baasha» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וַיְהִי֙» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 16:5 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 →
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.
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.