וְאֶת הַיָּ֗ם נָתַ֞ן מִכֶּ֧תֶף הַיְמָנִ֛ית קֵ֖דְמָה מִמּ֥וּל נֶֽגְבָּה
He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 4:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 4:10 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
He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
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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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World English Bible Public Domain
He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the Sea he placed on the right side to the east, facing toward the south.
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
He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side `of the house' eastward, toward the south.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he set the Sea on the right side Eastward toward the South.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the sea he hath placed on the right shoulder eastward, over-against the south.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he has placed the sea on the right shoulder eastward, from toward the south.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He placed the basin known as “The Sea” on the east side of the temple, facing toward the south.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the Sea he placed on the right side to the east, facing toward the south.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side eastward, over against the south.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He placed the Sea on the south side, by the southeast corner.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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הַיְמָנִ֛ית
yᵉmânîy
H3233
“the · right hand”
Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 33× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 29:20
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Adjective
- Type
- Adjective
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
right, right hand
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַיָּ֗ם yâm H3220 “the · sea” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- נָתַ֞ן nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִכֶּ֧תֶף kâthêph H3802 “from · shoulder of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַיְמָנִ֛ית yᵉmânîy H3233 “the · right hand” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- קֵ֖דְמָה qedem H6924 “east · toward” Adverb + Suffix, Demonstrative
- מִמּ֥וּל mûwl H4136 “from · front” Preposition + Preposition
- נֶֽגְבָּה negeb H5045 “south · toward” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
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
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַיְמָנִ֛ית right hand H3233 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 3 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
- 1 adverb
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- נָתַ֞ן Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 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 14 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
1Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 4:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 7:39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
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 ὁ θάλασσα τίθημι ἀπό γωνία ὁ οἶκος ἐκ δεξιός ὡς πρός ἀνατολή κατέναντι
And he set the sea at the corner of the house on the right, as it were fronting the east.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 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
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yᵉmânîy (“right hand”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “right hand” (yᵉmânîy) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Exodus 29:20, which shares the word «right hand», 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?
- «נָתַ֞ן» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- 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 ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 4:10 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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.