וְהַיָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר מָלַ֤ךְ יֵהוּא֙ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנֶֽה שָׁנָ֖ה בְּשֹׁמְרֽוֹן
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Kings 10:36
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 10:36 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
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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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
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the days that Jehu had reigned over Israel 28 years in Samaria.
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
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So the duration of Jehu’s reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So the duration of Jehu’s reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the time that Iehu reigned ouer Israel in Samaria is eight and twentie yeeres.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was eight and twenty years.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the days that Jehu hath reigned over Israel `are' twenty and eight years, in Samaria.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the days that Jehu has reigned over Israel in Samaria [are] twenty-eight years.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the days that Jehu had reigned over Israel 28 years in Samaria.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Now the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-eight years.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the time of Jehu's rule over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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יֵהוּא֙
Yêhûwʼ
H3058
“Jehu”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 58× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Kings 16:1
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Jehu = "Jehovah is He"
- the king of the northern kingdom Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Omri
- son of Hanani and an Israelite prophet in the time of Baasha and Jehoshaphat
- the Antothite, a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors
- a descendant of Judah of the house of Hezron
- son of Josibiah and a chief of the tribe of Simeon
- וְהַיָּמִ֗ים yôwm H3117 “and · the · days” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁ֨ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- מָלַ֤ךְ mâlak H4427 “to reign” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- יֵהוּא֙ Yêhûwʼ H3058 “Jehu” Noun, Proper
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנֶֽה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- שָׁנָ֖ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- בְּשֹׁמְרֽוֹן Shômᵉrôwn H8111 “in/at · Samaria” Preposition + 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 →
- 10
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יֵהוּא֙ Jehu H3058 occurs in 54 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 2 adjectives
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- מָלַ֤ךְ Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 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 10 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.
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 ἡμέρα ὅς βασιλεύω ιου ἐπί ἰσραήλ εἴκοσι ὀκτώ ἔτος ἐν σαμαρεία
And the days which Ju reigned over Israel were twenty-eight years in Samaria.
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 →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וְיוֹמַיָא דִמְלַךְ יֵהוּא עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל עַסְרִין וְתַמְנֵי שְׁנִין בְּשֹׁמְרוֹן:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yêhûwʼ (“Jehu”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Jehu” (Yêhûwʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 1 Kings 16:1 shares the word «Jehu» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- 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?
- The verb «מָלַ֤ךְ» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary 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 10 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 10:36 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.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.