יָחַשׂ
to enroll
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct 16 times (80%)
- Verb, Hithpael, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (10%)
- Verb, Hithpael, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 2 times (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 20 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3187 appears — 20 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 10 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:33 וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֖/ם conj + Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
- 1 Chronicles 5:1 לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ prep + Hithpael inf.cs The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
- 1 Chronicles 5:7 בְּ/הִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ prep + Hithpael inf.cs His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
- 1 Chronicles 5:17 הִתְיַחְשׂ֔וּ Hithpael pf 3cp All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 הִתְיַחְשָׂ֖/ם Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 7:7 וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֗/ם conj + Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
- 1 Chronicles 7:9 וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֣/ם conj + Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 7:40 וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֤/ם conj + Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 9:1 הִתְיַחְשׂ֔וּ Hithpael pf 3cp So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22 הִתְיַחְשָׂ֔/ם Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
2 Chronicles 5 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:15 לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֑שׂ prep + Hithpael inf.cs Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
- 2 Chronicles 31:16 הִתְיַחְשָׂ֣/ם Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into the house of Yahweh, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 31:17 הִתְיַחֵ֤שׂ Hithpael inf.cs and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 31:18 וּ/לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֗שׂ conj + prep + Hithpael inf.cs and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 הִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ Hithpael inf.cs Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 2:62 הַ/מִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים ptcl def.art + Hithpael ptcp.act mp These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
- Ezra 8:1 וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֑/ם conj + Hithpael inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
- Ezra 8:3 הִתְיַחֵ֥שׂ Hithpael inf.cs Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 7:5 לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֑שׂ prep + Hithpael inf.cs My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:
- Nehemiah 7:64 הַ/מִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים ptcl def.art + Hithpael ptcp.act mp These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb יחש centers on the idea of “to enroll.” The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (50%), then 2 Chronicles and Ezra. It appears 20 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 4:33. It clusters with יחש under a shared root. Dig into 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3187 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,513
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,513 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 10 verses 50%
- 2 Chronicles 5 verses 25%
- Ezra 3 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Genealogy 3×, Among those that were reckoned by genealogy 2×
- American Standard Version: Were reckoned by genealogy 4×, Among those that were reckoned by genealogy 2×, Genealogy 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Genealogy 2×, Listed in their genealogies 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Enrolled 4×, Genealogy 4×, Were enrolled 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3187 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3187 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3187 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3187 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Hithpael) to reckon genealogically, enroll on a genealogy, enroll, be enrolled
Word origin
[ הִתְיַחֵשׂ ] vb. Hithp. denom. enroll oneself or be enrolled by genealogy
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Forms in the corpus
The 17 distinct written forms H3187 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הִתְיַחְשׂ֔וּ | Verb, Hithpael, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | 1 Chronicles 5:17 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים | Verb, Hithpael, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 2:62 | 2 |
| לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֑שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 2 Chronicles 12:15 | 2 |
| בְּ/הִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 5:7 | 1 |
| הִתְיַחְשָׂ֔/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 9:22 | 1 |
| הִתְיַחְשָׂ֖/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 7:5 | 1 |
| הִתְיַחְשָׂ֣/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 2 Chronicles 31:16 | 1 |
| הִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 2 Chronicles 31:19 | 1 |
| הִתְיַחֵ֤שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 2 Chronicles 31:17 | 1 |
| הִתְיַחֵ֥שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | Ezra 8:3 | 1 |
| וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֑/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | Ezra 8:1 | 1 |
| וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֖/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 4:33 | 1 |
| וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֗/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 7:7 | 1 |
| וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֣/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 7:9 | 1 |
| וְ/הִתְיַחְשָׂ֤/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 7:40 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֗שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 2 Chronicles 31:18 | 1 |
| לְ/הִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ | Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct | 1 Chronicles 5:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3187, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 18 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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