אַלּ֥וּף קְנַ֛ז אַלּ֥וּף תֵּימָ֖ן אַלּ֥וּף מִבְצָֽר
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 36:42
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 36:42 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.
English Translation
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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World English Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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King James Version Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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King James Version Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, Duke Teman, Duke Mibzar,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;
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מִבְצָֽר
Mibtsâr
H4014
“Mibzar”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Mibzar = "fortress"
- one of the chiefs of Edom
- אַלּ֥וּף ʼallûwph H441 “intimate” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- קְנַ֛ז Qᵉnaz H7073 “Kenaz” Noun, Proper
- אַלּ֥וּף ʼallûwph H441 “intimate” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- תֵּימָ֖ן Têymân H8487 “Teman” Noun, Proper
- אַלּ֥וּף ʼallûwph H441 “intimate” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מִבְצָֽר Mibtsâr H4014 “Mibzar” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 6
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִבְצָֽר Mibzar H4014 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- מִבְצָֽר Mibzar H4014
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִבְצָֽר Mibzar H4014 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אַלּ֥וּף intimate H441 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 6 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 6 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.
ἡγεμών κενεζ ἡγεμών θαιμαν ἡγεμών μαζαρ
chief Kenez, chief Thaeman, chief Mazar,
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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
רַבָּא קְנַז רַבָּא תֵימָן רַבָּא מִבְצָר
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
רַבָּא קְנַז רַבָּא תֵימָן רַבָּא מִבְצָר
Rabba Kenaz, Rabba Teman, Rabba Mibzar,
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mibtsâr (“Mibzar”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Mibzar” (Mibtsâr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “Mibzar” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does 1 Chronicles 1:53, which shares the word «Mibzar», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “intimate” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- 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?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- “intimate” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.