וּלְמַטֵּ֥ה בְנֵֽי יִשָׂשכָ֖ר נָשִׂ֑יא פַּלְטִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן עַזָּֽן
Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 34:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 34:26 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
Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a leader, Paltiel the son of Azzan;
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader from the tribe of Issachar;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader from the tribe of Issachar;
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King James Version Public Domain
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So of the tribe of the sonnes of Issachar, the prince Paltiel the sonne of Azzan.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince Paltiel son of Azzan;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and a prince of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, Paltiel son of Azzan;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of the descendants of Issachar a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a leader, Paltiel the son of Azzan;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and for the tribe of the children of Issachar, a prince, Phaltiel the son of Azzan;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
A leader from the tribe of Issachar: Paltiel, son of Azzan.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel, the son of Azzan.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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עַזָּֽן
ʻAzzân
H5821
“Azzan”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Azzan = "very strong"
- father of Paltiel prince of the tribe of Issachar who represented his tribe in the division of the promised land
- וּלְמַטֵּ֥ה maṭṭeh H4294 “and · to/for · staff of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בְנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יִשָׂשכָ֖ר Yissâˢkâr H3485 “Issachar” Noun, Proper
- נָשִׂ֑יא nâsîyʼ H5387 “chief” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- פַּלְטִיאֵ֖ל Palṭîyʼêl H6409 “Paltiel” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- עַזָּֽן ʻAzzân H5821 “Azzan” 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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- עַזָּֽן Azzan H5821
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
פַּלְטִיאֵ֖ל Paltiel H6409 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 7 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְנֵֽי son H1121 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 7 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.
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.
ὁ φυλή υἱός ισσαχαρ ἄρχων φαλτιηλ υἱός οζα
Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Phaltiel the son of Oza.
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)
וּלְשִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי יִשָׂשכָר רַבָּא פַלְטִיאֵל בַּר עַזָן
(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)
לְשִׁבְטָא דְבֵית יִשָשכָר אַמַרְכּוֹל פַּלְטִיאֵל בַּר עַזָן
Issakar, Paltiel bar Azan;
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.
Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻAzzân (“Azzan”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Azzan” (ʻAzzân) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 2 Samuel 3:15, which shares the word «Paltiel», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.