וַיִּמְלֹ֨ךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה בִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם עַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 9:30
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 9:30 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
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel 40 years.
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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
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Salomon reigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel fourtie yeeres.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And Solomon reigneth in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And Solomon reigns in Jerusalem over all Israel [for] forty years,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel 40 years.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all of Israel for forty years.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Solomon was king over Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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אַרְבָּעִ֥ים
ʼarbâʻîym
H705
“forty”
Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 135× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 5:13
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Type
- Cardinal number
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
forty
- וַיִּמְלֹ֨ךְ mâlak H4427 “and · to reign” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה Shᵉlômôh H8010 “Solomon” Noun, Proper
- בִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם Yᵉrûwshâlaim H3389 “in/at · Jerusalem” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
- אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “forty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שָׁנָֽה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
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
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיִּמְלֹ֨ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 8 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 10 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 9:30 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 11:42–43 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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 βασιλεύω σαλωμών ὁ βασιλεύς ἐπί πᾶς ἰσραήλ τεσσαράκοντα ἔτος
And Solomon reigned over all Israel forty years.
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 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼarbâʻîym (“forty”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “forty” (ʼarbâʻîym) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 1 Kings 11:42–43 shares this passage’s theme. 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 «וַיִּמְלֹ֨ךְ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes 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 ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 9:30 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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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.
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.