2 Chronicles 17:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יְהוֹחָנָ֣ן

Yᵉhôwchânân

H3076

“Jehohanan”

Noun, Proper

Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 12:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3068 and H2603

TWOT: None

Jehohanan = "Jehovah has graced" - a Korhite Levite and one of the doorkeepers to the tabernacle in the time of David - a captain of Judah under king Jehoshaphat - a priest during the high priesthood of Joiakim who returned with Zerubbabel - a high priest in the time of Ezra - a Levite priest who took part in the dedication of the wall in the time of Nehemiah - son of Tobiah - an Ephraimite - an Israelite with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra - a Jewish captain after the fall of Jerusalem - the eldest son of king Josiah - a post-exilic prince of the line of David - father of Azariah, priest in Solomon's time - a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors - a Gadite, one of David's mighty warriors - a returning exile

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
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יְהוֹחָנָ֣ן Jehohanan H3076 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְהוֹחָנָ֣ן Jehohanan H3076 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns
3 adjectives
2 prepositions

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 13 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 17:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַל יָד֖וֹ יְהוֹחָנָ֣ן הַשָּׂ֑ר וְעִמּ֕וֹ מָאתַ֥יִם וּשְׁמוֹנִ֖ים אָֽלֶף

and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 17:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί μετά αὐτός ιωαναν ὁ ἡγέομαι καί μετά αὐτός διακόσιοι ὀγδοήκοντα χιλίας

And after him, Joanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 17:15 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, next to him.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(15) Next to him.—At his hand, i.e., beside him, and subordinate to him. (Comp. 1Ch_25:2.)

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

15. next to him] Lit. at his hand; the same phrase is used in Neh_3:2; Neh_3:4-5, etc.

Jehohanan] Sometimes spelt Johanan.

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

And next to him was Jehohanan the captain,.... Being of the same rank as to office, but having a lesser number of men under him; and it may respect not any kind of subordination, only nearness of place, as the Targum,"he that encamped next to him"

and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand; which number was but 20,000 less than the former.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Next to him; either,

1. After his death, as his successor in the same command. And the like is supposed concerning Jehozabad, 2Ch 17:18. Or rather,

2. Next to him in place and authority; or, at least, in power and the numbers of his host.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The captain. So again read, the prince.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉhôwchânân (“Jehohanan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Jehohanan” (Yᵉhôwchânân) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 Chronicles 12:4 shares the word «Jehohanan» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.