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1 Chronicleschapter 12

40 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History

Original Language

1 Chronicles 12— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 1 Chronicles 12. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.

How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

1 Chronicles 12:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיָּבֹ֗אוּvaiyavouand they cameH935מִן־min-some ofH4480בְּנֵ֤יbenei[the] descendants ofH1121בִנְיָמִן֙vinyaminBenjaminH1144וִֽיהוּדָ֔הvihudahand JudahH3063עַד־ʾad-toH5704לַמְצָ֖דlamtzadto the fortressH4679לְדָוִֽיד׃ledavidto DavidH1732

Rashi on I Chronicles 12:16

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month in Nissan, when the snows had already melted.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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