24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to 2 Samuel 23:24. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
עֲשָׂה־אֵ֥ל אֲחִֽי־יוֹאָ֖ב בַּשְּׁלֹשִׁ֑ים אֶלְחָנָ֥ן בֶּן־דֹּד֖וֹ בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃
אֲחִֽי
בַּשְּׁלֹשִׁ֑ים
בֶּן
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Ἀσαὴλ ἀδελφὸς Ἰωάβ· οὗτος ἐν τοῖς τριάκοντα· Ἐλεανὰν υἱὸς Δουδὶ πατραδέλφου αὐτοῦ ἐν Βηθλεέμ·
Ἀσαὴλ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- Ἀσαὴλ
- Transliteration
- asael
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Ἀσαὴλ
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 13
ἀδελφὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἀδελφός
- Transliteration
- adelphos
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- brother
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Brother, kinsman, or member of a people.
- Occurrences
- 739
Ἰωάβ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- Ἰωάβ
- Transliteration
- ioab
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Ἰωάβ
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Joab.
- Occurrences
- 156
οὗτος
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- οὗτος
- Transliteration
- houtos
- Morphology
- demonstrative pronoun, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- this one
- Part of Speech
- demonstrative pronoun
- Definition
- This, these.
- Occurrences
- 3767
ἐν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐν
- Transliteration
- en
- Morphology
- preposition with dative
- Gloss
- in, among, with
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- Preposition commonly taking the dative.
- Strong's
- G1722
- Occurrences
- 13086
τοῖς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
τριάκοντα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- τριάκοντα
- Transliteration
- triakonta
- Morphology
- numeral, indeclinable
- Gloss
- thirty
- Part of Speech
- numeral
- Definition
- The numeral thirty.
- Occurrences
- 137
Ἐλεανὰν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- Ἐλεανὰν
- Transliteration
- eleanan
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Ἐλεανὰν
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 4
υἱὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- υἱός
- Transliteration
- huios
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- son
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Son, descendant, or member of a group.
- Occurrences
- 4805
Δουδὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- δουδὶ
- Transliteration
- doydi
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 2
πατραδέλφου
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- πατραδέλφου
- Transliteration
- patradelphoy
- Morphology
- genitive singular masculine/neuter pattern
- Gloss
- of ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective/pronoun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 3
αὐτοῦ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- αὐτός
- Transliteration
- autos
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- he, himself
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- Third-person personal/intensive pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 26672
ἐν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐν
- Transliteration
- en
- Morphology
- preposition with dative
- Gloss
- in, among, with
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- Preposition commonly taking the dative.
- Strong's
- G1722
- Occurrences
- 13086
Βηθλεέμ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- Βηθλεέμ
- Transliteration
- bethleem
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Βηθλεέμ
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 12
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܥܫܐܝܠ ܐܚܘܗܝ ܕܝܘܐܒ ܒܬܠܬܝܢ ܓܒܪ̈ܝܢ
ܥܫܐܝܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܫܐܝܠ
- Transliteration
- 'sh'yl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 8
ܐܚܘܗܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܚܘܗܝ
- Transliteration
- 'hwhy
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 100
ܕܝܘܐܒ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܝܘܐܒ
- Transliteration
- dyw'b
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 23
ܒܬܠܬܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܬܠܬܝܢ
- Transliteration
- btltyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 2
ܓܒܪ̈ܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܓܒܪܝܢ
- Transliteration
- gbryn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 132
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
עֲשָׂהאֵל אֲחוֹהִי דְיוֹאָב בְּגִבָּרַיָא אֶלְחָנָן בַּר דוֹדוֹ דְמִבֵּית לָחֶם׃
עֲשָׂהאֵל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עשהאל
- Transliteration
- 'shh'l
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 16
אֲחוֹהִי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אחוהי
- Transliteration
- 'chwhy
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 125
דְיוֹאָב
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יואב
- Transliteration
- dyw'b
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 144
בְּגִבָּרַיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גבריא
- Transliteration
- bgbry'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 191
אֶלְחָנָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אלחנן
- Transliteration
- 'lchnn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 2
בַּר
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- בר
- Transliteration
- br
- Morphology
- noun masculine singular
- Gloss
- son
- Occurrences
- 2734
דוֹדוֹ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ודו
- Transliteration
- dwdw
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 5
דְמִבֵּית
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מבית
- Transliteration
- dmbyt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 14
לָחֶם׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לחם
- Transliteration
- lchm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 79
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Asaël frater Joab inter triginta, Elehanan filius patrui ejus de Bethlehem,
Asahel
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Asael
- Transliteration
- Asahel
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 17
frater
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- frater
- Transliteration
- frater
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1060
Ioab
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Ioas
- Transliteration
- Ioab
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 194
inter
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- inter
- Transliteration
- inter
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 502
triginta
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- triginta
- Transliteration
- triginta
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: numeral
- Occurrences
- 181
Eleanan
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Eleanas
- Transliteration
- Eleanan
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 2
filius
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- filius
- Transliteration
- filius
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 5067
patrui
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- patruus
- Transliteration
- patrui
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 19
eius
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eius
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
de
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- de
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 4779
Bethleem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Bethleem
- Transliteration
- Bethleem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 47
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
2 Samuel 2:18
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
5 relevance votes1 Chronicles 27:7
The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
4 relevance votes1 Chronicles 11:26
The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
2 relevance votes