Exodus 6:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

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

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וַאֲבִיאָסָ֑ף

ʼĂbîyʼâçâph

H23

“and · Abiasaph”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H622

TWOT: None

Abiasaph = "my father has gathered" - son (descendant) of Korah

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 →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

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

וַאֲבִיאָסָ֑ף Abiasaph H23

First appearance in Scripture

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

אַסִּ֥יר Assir H617
וְאֶלְקָנָ֖ה Elkanah H511
וַאֲבִיאָסָ֑ף Abiasaph H23
הַקָּרְחִֽי Korahite H7145

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אַסִּ֥יר Assir H617 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns
1 pronoun

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 8 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 6:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Chronicles 6:22–23 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
Exodus 6:21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
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]:
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 26:9–11 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,
1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
1 Chronicles 6:27–28 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
1 Chronicles 6:33 These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

1 Chronicles 6:37–38 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
Psalms 84:1–85:1 How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Hosts!

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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.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 6:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֣י קֹ֔רַח אַסִּ֥יר וְאֶלְקָנָ֖ה וַאֲבִיאָסָ֑ף אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הַקָּרְחִֽי

The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 6:24 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός δέ κορε ασιρ καί ελκανα καί αβιασαφ οὗτος ὁ γένεσις κορε

And the sons of Core, Asir, and Elkana, and Abiasar, these are the generations of Core.

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 קֹרַח אַסִיר וְאֶלְקָנָה וַאֲבִיאָסָף אִלֵין זַרְעֲיַת קֹרַח:

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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 דְקרַח אַסִיר וְאֶלְקָנָה וַאֲבִיאָסָף אִלֵין יֵיחוּסֵי דְקרַח

And the sons of Korah, Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the race of Korah.

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 6:24 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 6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these [are] the families of the Korhites.

Ver. 24. And the sons of Korah.] There were of his sons, that died not, {Num 16:11} departing, as it seems, from their father’s tents, as all were counselled. {Num 16:24-26} Of them came Samuel the prophet, Heman the music master, and other the sons of Korah so oft mentioned in the titles of Psalms.

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

(24) The sons of Korah did not partake in his sin, and therefore “died not” (Num_26:11), but became the heads of important families.

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

24. Koraḥ’s family. It is stated in Num_26:11 that the sons of Koraḥ did not perish with their father (Num_16:32); and Koraḥites are mentioned in Num_26:58. In much later days the Koraḥites acted as gate-keepers in the Temple (1Ch_9:19; 1Ch_26:1-19), and also, probably (cf. 2Ch_20:19; and the titles of Psalms 42, 44-49, 84, 85, 87, 88), assisted in some way in the worship of the Temple. For the names, see 1Ch_6:22-23 (where, however, Elkanah is the son of Assir, and Ebiasaph [Abiasaph] the son of Elkanah), Exo_9:19 (Ebiasaph).

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

These are they which spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt,.... In the name of the Lord of hosts; and demanded the dismission of Israel, in order

to bring the children of Israel from Egypt; nor did they desist making application to him, until they had prevailed upon him to let them go:

these are that Moses and Aaron; which is repeated, that it may be observed who were the deliverers of Israel, what their names, of what tribe they were, and from whom they descended, and who sprung from them, at least from Aaron.

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 Korah. All Korah"s sons were not cut off with. (Num_26:11) Three at least survived, and became the heads of "families of the Korhites."

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 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyʼâçâph (“Abiasaph”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼĂbîyʼâçâph carries the sense “Abiasaph.” How does it shape the verse?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
4 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
1 Chronicles 3:17 shares the word «Assir» 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?
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

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.