וַתֵּ֨רֶא֙ מַֽלְכַּת שְׁבָ֔א אֵ֖ת חָכְמַ֣ת שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וְהַבַּ֖יִת אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָֽה
When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 9:3
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 9:3 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
When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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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
When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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King James Version Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he built,
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
When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
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King James Version Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then the Queene of Sheba sawe the wisedome of Salomon, and the house that he had buylt,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the queen of Sheba seeth the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he hath built,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the queen of Sheba sees the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he has built,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
When the queen of Sheba saw Solomon's wisdom and the palace that he had built,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he built,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
When the queen of Sheba saw Solomon's wisdom, and the palace he had built,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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שְׁבָ֔א
Shᵉbâʼ
H7614
“Sheba”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 23× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 10:7
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Sheba = "seven" or " an oath"
- son of Joktan and a descendant of Seth (noun proper masculine)
- son of Raamah, grandson of Cush, and a descendant of Ham (noun proper masculine)
- son of Jokshan, the son of Abraham by Keturah (noun proper masculine)
- a nation in southern Arabia (noun proper locative)
- וַתֵּ֨רֶא֙ râʼâh H7200 “and · to see” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- מַֽלְכַּת malkâh H4436 “queen of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- שְׁבָ֔א Shᵉbâʼ H7614 “Sheba” Noun, Proper
- אֵ֖ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- חָכְמַ֣ת chokmâh H2451 “wisdom of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה Shᵉlômôh H8010 “Solomon” Noun, Proper
- וְהַבַּ֖יִת bayith H1004 “and · the · house” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- בָּנָֽה bânâh H1129 “to build” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שְׁבָ֔א Sheba H7614 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שְׁבָ֔א Sheba H7614 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַתֵּ֨רֶא֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- בָּנָֽה Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 9 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
4Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 9:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 3:1–4 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Kings 6:1–7 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 10:3 Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.
- Acts 11:23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
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 ὁράω βασίλισσα σαβα ὁ σοφία σαλωμών καί ὁ οἶκος ὅς οἰκοδομέω
And the queen of Saba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,
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
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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shᵉbâʼ (“Sheba”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Shᵉbâʼ carries the sense “Sheba.” How does it shape the verse?
- Genesis 10:7 shares the word «Sheba» 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?
- The verb «וַתֵּ֨רֶא֙» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 9:3 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.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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).
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.