Exodus 6:21

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

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2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וָנֶ֖פֶג

Nepheg

H5298

“and · Nepheg”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to spring forth

TWOT: None

Nepheg = "sprout" - one of sons of Izhar and grandson of Kohath of the tribe of Levi in the time of the exodus - one of the sons of David born to him at Jerusalem

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 →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וָנֶ֖פֶג Nepheg H5298 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

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

וָנֶ֖פֶג Nepheg H5298
וְזִכְרִֽי Zichri H2147

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וָנֶ֖פֶג Nepheg H5298 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 5 Hebrew tokens and 8 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

Topical passages linked to Exodus 6:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
1 Chronicles 6:37–38 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
Exodus 6:24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
Numbers 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
Numbers 26:10–11 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Exodus 6:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֖י יִצְהָ֑ר קֹ֥רַח וָנֶ֖פֶג וְזִכְרִֽי

The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

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Greek LXX Exodus 6:21 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός ισσααρ κορε καί ναφεκ καί ζεχρι

And the sons of Issaar, Core, and Naphec, and Zechri.

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 Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנֵי יִצְהָר קֹרַח וָנֶפֶג וְזִכְרִי:

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנוֹי דְיִצְהָר קרַח וָנֶפֶג וְזִכְרִי

And the sons of Jitshar (were) Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

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 6:21 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 6:21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

Ver. 21. Korah.] That ringleader of rebels, Num 16:1. Moses and he were first cousins.

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Moses and he were brothers’ children, whose rebellion was punished, Num. 16:1.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 21. Korah] Though he became a rebel against God and Moses, (see Nu 16:1, &c.), yet Moses, in his great impartiality, inserts his name among those of his other progenitors.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

21. The family of Kohath’s second son, Izhar.

Koraḥ] Moses’ and Aaron’s cousin: Num_16:1 ff. Nepheg and Zichri are not mentioned again.

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 the sons of Korah,.... The eldest son of Izhar, who, though he proved a bad man, yet many of his posterity were good men, and are often mentioned in general in the titles of some of the psalms of David: the immediate sons of Korah were

Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph. Aben Ezra says, that Samuel the prophet was of the sons of Korah; perhaps what might lead him to it was, because his father's name was Elkanah, the name of one of these sons of Korah, but cannot be this Elkanah:

these are the families of the Korhites; the heads of them, or from whom they descended.

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 Izhar. Korah is mentioned as a "son (descendant) of Izhar" in Num_16:1 and 1Ch_6:38. The other "sons" are not elsewhere mentioned. Zithri in this verse should be Zichri.

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 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nepheg (“Nepheg”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Nepheg carries the sense “Nepheg.” How does it shape the verse?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does 2 Samuel 5:15, which shares the word «Nepheg», read alongside this verse?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.