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Numbers 1:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 1:9 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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Numbers 1:9 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/1/9.

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Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;

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
    Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Of Zebulun, Eliab, the sonne of Helon:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `For Zebulun -- Eliab son of Helon.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    for Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    from the tribe of Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    for Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    from the tribe of Zebulun, Eliab, son of Helon;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

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

  • אֱלִיאָ֖ב Eliab H446
  • חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 7 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 4 Hebrew tokens and 5 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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 1:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
  • Numbers 2:7 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Numbers 10:16 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 1:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לִזְבוּלֻ֕ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן חֵלֹֽן

Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 1:9 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ζαβουλων ελιαβ υἱός χαιλων

Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Chaelon.

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)
    לִזְבוּלֻן אֱלִיאָב בַּר חֵלֹן

    (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)
    לִזְבוּלֻן אַמַרְכּוֹל אֱלִיאָב בַּר חֵילוֹן

    the prince of Zebulon, Eliab bar Chelon:

    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.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chêlôn (“Helon”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Helon” (Chêlôn) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Numbers 2:7 shares the word «Helon» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?

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