Exodus 6:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 6:15 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.
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The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jakin, and Zohar, and Shaul—the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel and Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Zoar, and Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon: Jamuel, and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a chanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And sons of Simeon `are' Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, son of the Canaanitess: these `are' families of Simeon.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, son of the Canaanite; these [are] families of Simeon.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul—the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clan ancestors of Simeon.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jakin, and Zohar, and Shaul—the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    -- And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul (the son of a Canaanite woman). These were the families of Simeon.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. These are the families of Simeon.

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יְמוּאֵ֨ל
Yᵉmûwʼêl
H3223
“Jemuel”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3117 and H410

TWOT: None

Jemuel = "day of God" - the eldest son of Simeon
  1. וּבְנֵ֣י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. שִׁמְע֗וֹן Shimʻôwn H8095 “Simeon” Noun, Proper
  3. וְיָמִ֤ין Yâmîyn H3226 “and · Jamin” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  4. וְאֹ֨הַד֙ ʼÔhad H161 “and · Ohad” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  5. וְיָכִ֣ין Yâkîyn H3199 “and · Jachin” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  6. וְצֹ֔חַר Tsôchar H6714 “and · Zohar” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  7. וְשָׁא֖וּל Shâʼûwl H7586 “and · Saul” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  8. בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑ית Kᵉnaʻanîy H3669 “the · Canaanite” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. אֵ֖לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  11. מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת mishpâchâh H4940 “families of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  12. שִׁמְעֽוֹן Shimʻôwn H8095 “Simeon” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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13
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יְמוּאֵ֨ל Jemuel H3223 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְמוּאֵ֨ל Jemuel H3223 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 12 nouns
  • 1 pronoun

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וּבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
  • שִׁמְע֗וֹן Simeon H8095 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 24 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

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 6:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 46:10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
  • 1 Chronicles 4:24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
  • Numbers 26:12–13 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Exodus 6:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֣י שִׁמְע֗וֹן יְמוּאֵ֨ל וְיָמִ֤ין וְאֹ֨הַד֙ וְיָכִ֣ין וְצֹ֔חַר וְשָׁא֖וּל בֶּן הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑ית אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת שִׁמְעֽוֹן

The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 6:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός συμεων ιεμουηλ καί ιαμιν καί αωδ καί ιαχιν καί σααρ καί σαουλ ὁ ἐκ ὁ φοίνισσα οὗτος ὁ πατριά ὁ υἱός συμεων

And the sons of Symeon, Jemuel and Jamin, and Aod, and Jachin and Saar, and Saul the son of a Phoenician woman, these are the families of the sons of Symeon.

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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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּבְנֵי שִׁמְעוֹן יְמוּאֵל וְיָמִין וְאֹהַד וְיָכִין וְצֹחַר וְשָׁאוּל בַּר כְּנַעֲנֵיתָא אִלֵין זַרְעֲיַת שִׁמְעוֹן:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּבְנוֹי דְשִׁמְעוֹן יְמוּאֵל וְיָמִין וְאוֹהַד וְיָכִין וְצוֹחַר וְשָׁאוּל הוּא זִמְרִי דְאַשְׁאִיל נַפְשֵׁיהּ לִזְנוּתָא הֵי בִּכְנַעֲנָאֵי אִלֵין יֵיחוּסִין דְשִׁמְעוֹן

    And the sons of Shimeon, Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jakin, and Sochar, and Shaul (he is Zimri, who yielded himself unto fornication, as among the Kenaanaee); these are the race of Shimeon.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 6:15 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

Exo 6:15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these [are] the families of Simeon.

Ver. 15. The son of a Canaanitish woman,] Whom it was not lawful for him to marry; but he was a headlong and headstrong, bold and fierce fellow; {Gen 34:25; Gen 49:7} bound by Joseph {Gen 42:24} as one that had been most forward to sell him to the Midianitish merchants. Simeon also is left out in Moses’s blessing. {Deu 33:1-29}

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

15. See Gen_46:10, Num_26:12 f. The clan Shaul must have had in it an admixture of Canaanite blood.

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

And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations,.... Whose sons, according to the order of their birth, were as follow:

Gershom, and Kohath, and Merari; see Gen 46:11,

and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty seven years; and exactly the same number of years is assigned him by Polyhistor from Demetrius (c), an Heathen writer. Jarchi says, that the reason why, the years of the life of Levi are reckoned is to show how long the bondage lasted; for there was no servitude as long as any of the tribes (or of the sons of Jacob) remained, according to Exo 1:6 and the Jewish chronologers (d) affirm that Levi was the last of the patriarchs that died; and that he died in the year of the world 3332, and lived in Egypt ninety four years; and from his time, to the going out of Egypt, were only one hundred and sixteen years; and they further say the bondage could not last longer than one hundred and sixteen years, nor shorter than eighty seven. Bishop Usher (e) places his death in A. M. 2385, and before Christ 1619: according to the Targum of Jonathan, he lived to see Moses and Aaron the deliverers of Israel; but that is false, since Joseph and all his brethren died before Moses was born, Exo 1:6.

(c) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 425. (d) Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 5. 1. Tzemach David, par. 1, fol. 6. 2. & 7. 1. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 3. p. 9. (e) Annales Vet. Test. p. 17.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

The sons of Simeon. The list corresponds exactly, both in the names and in the order, with that given in Gen_46:10, but differs considerably from 1Ch_4:24, and Num_26:12. In both the latter places Jemuel appears as Nemuel, and Zohar as Zerah, while Obad is omitted. in 1Ch_4:24, Jachin appears as Jarib. It would seem that the family of Obad died out and disappeared soon after the Israelites quitted Egypt. The family of Shaul, on the other hand, increased and multiplied. (1Ch_4:25-27)

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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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉmûwʼêl (“Jemuel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Yᵉmûwʼêl carries the sense “Jemuel.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Genesis 46:10 shares the word «Jemuel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. 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?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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