2 Samuel 23:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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מְבֻנַּ֖י

Mᵉbunnay

H4012

“Mebunnai”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1129

TWOT: None

Mebunnai = "building of Jehovah" - one of David's mighty warriors - also 'Sibbechai' or 'Sibbecai'

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 →

4: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

מְבֻנַּ֖י Mebunnai H4012

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

הָֽעַנְּתֹתִ֔י Anethothite H6069
מְבֻנַּ֖י Mebunnai H4012

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הָֽעַנְּתֹתִ֔י Anethothite H6069 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 9 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 23:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 21:18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
1 Chronicles 11:19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 27:12 The ninth [captain] for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Samuel 23:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֲבִיעֶ֨זֶר֙ הָֽעַנְּתֹתִ֔י מְבֻנַּ֖י הַחֻשָׁתִֽי

Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Samuel 23:27 Septuagint · lemma form

αβιεζερ ὁ αναθωθίτης ἐκ ὁ υἱός ὁ ασωθίτης

Abiezer the Anothite, of the sons of the Anothite.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

אֲבִיעֶזֶר דְמִן עֲנָתוֹת מְבֻנַי דְמִן חֻשָׁת:

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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 23:27 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Divers of these had two names, appeareth 1 Chron. 11, and also many more are there mentioned.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(27) Abiezer.—He was general for the ninth month (1Ch_27:12). He was of Anathoth, a priestly city of Benjamin, the home of Jeremiah.

Mebunnai.—According to 2Sa_21:18 Sibbechai, and to 1Ch_11:29 Sibbecai, these being the same in the Hebrew. The two names are much alike in the original and might be easily confused. He slew the giant Saph (2Sa_21:18), and was the general for the eighth month (1Ch_27:11).

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

27. Abiezer the Anethothite] Of Anathoth in Benjamin. The modern village of Anâta, three miles N.N.E. of Jerusalem, preserves the name and marks the site. It was a priests city (Jos_21:18); the home of Abiathar (1Ki_2:26); and the birth-place of the prophet Jeremiah (Jer_1:1). Antothite (1Ch_11:28), and Anetothite (1Ch_27:12), are merely different transliterations of the same Heb. word. In the latter passage Abiezer is named as the general of the ninth division of the army.

Mebunnai the Hushathite] Mebunnai (מבני) is doubtless a textual error for Sibbechai (מבכי), the consonants being very similar and easily confused in the original text, which had no vowels. Sibbechai won renown by slaying the giant Saph (ch. 2Sa_21:18), and commanded the eighth division of the army (1Ch_27:11). His native place Hushah must have been in Judah, as it is mentioned among the places occupied by the descendants of Judah (1Ch_4:4), but nothing further is known about it. He belonged to the important clan of the Zarhites, descended from Zerah the son of Judah (1Ch_2:4).

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.

John Gill's Exposition

Abiezer the Anethothite,.... He was of Anathoth, in the tribe of Benjamin, Jos 21:18, the birthplace of Jeremiah the prophet, Jer 1:1,

Mebunnai the Hushathite; the same with Sibbecai, Ch1 11:29; this man had two names, and was a descendant of Hushah, who came of Judah, Ch1 4:4.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Mobonnai. Septuagint have translated the Hebrew, "of the sons," mobni, (Kennicott) which is corrupted from sobci, or (Haydock) Sobbochai, who was a Husathite, 1 Paralipomenon xi. 29. (Calmet)

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).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

27. Mebunnai — Or, Sibbechai. Compare Chronicles and 2Sa_21:18.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Abiezer. He had the command of the ninth brigade. (1Ch_27:12) Anathoth, now Mata, was a priestly city in Benjamin (Jos_21:18) the home of Abiathar, (1Ki_2:26) and the birthplace of Jeremiah. (Jer_1:1) Anethothite and Antothite, in the parallel places in Chronicles, are merely different ways of pronouncing the same Hebrew consonants. Mebunnai. Written Sibbechai in 2Sa_21:18, and, as the name is so written in both the parallel places in Chronicles, Mebunnai is probably a mistake. In 1Ch_27:11 he is said to have been commander of the eighth brigade, and to have been a Zarhite of the town of Hushah, in the tribe of Judah. (see 1Ch_4:4)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉbunnay (“Mebunnai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Mebunnai” (Mᵉbunnay) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does 1 Chronicles 11:28, which shares the word «Anethothite», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.