וַיִּקְרָא֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל סָרִ֖יס אֶחָ֑ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מַהֵ֖ר מיכהו מִיכָ֥יְהוּ בֶן יִמְלָֽא
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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2 Chronicles 18:8
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 18:8 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
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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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.
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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
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the king of Israel called to one officer, and he said, “Hasten Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
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
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
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King James Version Public Domain
And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the King of Israel called an eunuche, and said, Call quickly Michaiah the sonne of Imla.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to him: Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the king of Israel calleth unto a certain officer, and saith, `Hasten Micaiah son of Imlah.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the king of Israel calls to a certain officer and says, “Hurry Micaiah son of Imlah.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, “Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the king of Israel called to one officer, and he said, “Hasten Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Then the king of Israel called a chamberlain, and said, Fetch quickly Micah the son of Imlah.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The king of Israel called over one of his officials and told him, “Bring me Micaiah, son of Imlah, right away.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with Micaiah, the son of Imla.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.'
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יִמְלָֽא
Yimlâʼ
H3229
“Imlah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Kings 22:8
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Imlah or Imla = "whom God will fill up"
- father of Michaiah the prophet
- וַיִּקְרָא֙ qârâʼ H7121 “and · to call” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מֶ֣לֶךְ melek H4428 “king of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- סָרִ֖יס çârîyç H5631 “eunuch” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶחָ֑ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מַהֵ֖ר mâhar H4116 “hasten” Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מיכהו Mîykâh H4318 “Micah” Noun, Proper
- מִיכָ֥יְהוּ Mîykâyᵉhûw H4321 “Micaiah” Noun, Proper
- בֶן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יִמְלָֽא Yimlâʼ H3229 “Imlah” 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 →
- 12
- words
- 12
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is יִמְלָֽא Imlah H3229 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יִמְלָֽא Imlah H3229 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 7 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיִּקְרָא֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- מַהֵ֖ר Piel · Imperative
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 13 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
7Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 18:8 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 8:15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
- 1 Kings 22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
- 1 Chronicles 28:1 David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 18:25–26 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
- Isaiah 39:7 Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
- Daniel 1:3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in [certain] of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles;
- Daniel 1:7–8 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave [the name of] Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, [of] Shadrach; and to Mishael, [of] Meshach; and to Azariah, [of] Abednego.
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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 καλέω ὁ βασιλεύς ἰσραήλ εὐνοῦχος εἷς καί εἶπον τάχος μιχαιας υἱός ιεμλα
And the king called an eunuch, and said, Fetch quickly Michaias the son of Jembla.
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 →
Lesson kit
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yimlâʼ (“Imlah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Imlah” (Yimlâʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does 1 Kings 22:8, which shares the word «Imlah», read alongside this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- «וַיִּקְרָא֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 18:8 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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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.
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.