אִיתָמָר
Ithamar
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ithamar’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H385 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 7 distinct verses. 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
- 1 Chronicles 6:3 וְ/אִיתָמָֽר conj + n Proper The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:1 וְ/אִיתָמָֽר conj + n Proper Thes were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:2 וְ/אִיתָמָֽר conj + n Proper But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
- 1 Chronicles 24:3 אִיתָמָ֑ר n Proper David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
- 1 Chronicles 24:4 אִיתָמָ֖ר אִיתָמָ֛ר n Proper n Proper There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.
- 1 Chronicles 24:5 אִיתָמָֽר n Proper Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:6 לְ/אִיתָמָֽר prep + n Proper Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
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.
“Ithamar” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name איתמר (ʼÎythâmâr). First canonically at Exodus 6:23, it enters the text early. It appears 20 verses across 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. See 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H385 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.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,462
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 7 verses 35%
- Numbers 6 verses 30%
- Exodus 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.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 40%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Ithamar 21×
- American Standard Version†: Ithamar 21×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Ithamar 19×, Ithamar’s 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Ithamar 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H385 across 21† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H385 across 21† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H385 across 21† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H385 across 21† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Ithamar = "coast of palms"
- fourth and youngest son of Aaron
Word origin
n.pr.m. ((is) land of palms? Thes) youngest (4th) son of Aaron Ex 6:23; 28:1; 38:21; Lv 10:6, 12, 16; Nu 3:2, 4; 4:28, 33; 7:8; 26:60 (all P) 1 Ch 5:29; 24:1, 2, 3, 4(×2), 5, 6 Ezr 8:2.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אי (ʼîy) (H339) — island.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H385 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אִֽיתָמָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | Exodus 38:21 | 4 |
| וְ/אִיתָמָֽר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:3 | 4 |
| אִיתָמָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:2 | 2 |
| אִיתָמָֽר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:5 | 2 |
| אִ֨יתָמָ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Leviticus 10:12 | 1 |
| אִֽיתָמָֽר | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:23 | 1 |
| אִֽיתָמָר֙ | Noun, Proper | Leviticus 10:16 | 1 |
| אִיתָמָ֑ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:3 | 1 |
| אִיתָמָ֛ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:4 | 1 |
| וְ/אִ֣יתָמָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 3:4 | 1 |
| וְ/אִיתָמָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Exodus 28:1 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/אִֽיתָמָ֨ר | Noun, Proper | Leviticus 10:6 | 1 |
| לְ/אִיתָמָֽר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:6 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ithamar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Palm isle, the fourth and youngest son of Aaron (1 Chr. 6:3). He was consecrated to the priesthood along with his brothers (Ex. 6:23); and after the death of Nadab and Abihu, he and Eleazar alone discharged the functions of that office (Lev. 10:6, 12; Num. 3:4). He and his family occupied the position of common priest till the high priesthood passed into his family in the person of Eli (1 Kings 2:27), the reasons for which are not recorded. (See ZADOK.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(land of palms), the youngest son of Aaron. (Exodus 6:23) (B.C. 1491.) After the death of Nadab and Abihu, (Leviticus 10:1) Eleazar and Ithamar were appointed to succeed to their places in the priestly office. (Exodus 28:1,40,43; Numbers 3:3,4; 1 Chronicles 24:2) In the distribution of services belonging to the tabernacle, and its transport on the march of the Israelites, the Gershonites and the Merarites were placed under the superintendence of Ithamar. (Exodus 38:21; Numbers 4:21-33) The high priesthood passed into the family of Ithamar in the person of Eli, but for what reason we are not informed.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
island of the palm-tree
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
