2 Samuel 15:29

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.

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וְאֶבְיָתָ֛ר

ʼEbyâthâr

H54

“and · Abiathar”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 30× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 22:20

Full BDB Definition

Origin: contracted from H1 and H3498

TWOT: None

Abiathar = "my father is great" - priest, son of Ahitub (Ahimelech), faithful to David, but later rebelled with Adonijah

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְאֶבְיָתָ֛ר Abiathar H54 occurs in 28 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
1 adverb
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיָּ֨שֶׁב Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 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.

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.

Hebrew 2 Samuel 15:29 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּ֨שֶׁב צָד֧וֹק וְאֶבְיָתָ֛ר אֶת אֲר֥וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ שָֽׁם

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Samuel 15:29 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποστρέφω σαδωκ καί αβιαθαρ ὁ κιβωτός εἰς ἰερουσαλήμ καί καταἵζω ἐκεῖ

So Sadoc and Abiathar brought back the ark of the Lord to Jerusalem, and it continued there.

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)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲתֵיב צָדוֹק וְאֶבְיָתָר יַת אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ לִירוּשְׁלֵם וִיתִיבוּ תַמָן:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on 2 Samuel 15:29 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Sa 15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

Ver. 29. Carried the ark again to Jerusalem.] From whence they were to help David by their prayers, and otherwise: like as David was afterwards to help the people out of Mahanaim. {2Sa 18:3}

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.

John Gill's Exposition

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem,.... That is, ordered it to be carried, and took care that it was carried, by the Kohathite Levites, and they themselves attended it:

and they tarried there; at Jerusalem; though their two sons that went with them entered not into the city, but stayed at a place called Enrogel, at some little distance from it, Sa2 17:17.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼEbyâthâr (“Abiathar”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼEbyâthâr carries the sense “Abiathar.” How does it shape the verse?
1 Samuel 22:20 shares the word «Abiathar» 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 «וַיָּ֨שֶׁב» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition 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 10 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.