The word “disputed” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2020. Today the opening carries none. 1 remains further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “disputed” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2020 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2020
Ichabod ( , ikhabod – no glory , inglorious or where is the glory? ) is mentioned in the first Book of Samuel as the son of Phinehas , a malicious priest at the biblical shrine of Shiloh , who was born on the day that the Israelites ' Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity . His mother went into labour due to the shock of hearing that her husband and Eli , her father-in-law, had died and that the Ark had been captured. He is also named later as the brother of Ahitub . In the Book of 1 Samuel, his name is said to mean the glory has departed from Israel , because of the loss of the Ark to the Philistines , and a lesser reference to the deaths of Eli and Phinehas. She repeats the phrase "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured", to show her piety, and that the public and spiritual loss lay heavier upon her spirit than her personal or domestic calamity. Yairah Amit suggests that his name indicates "the fate of this newborn child who would have no parents, no grandfather and not even God, because even the glory has departed from the place". According to biblical commentator Donald Spence Jones , "the meaning of the term I-chabod is much disputed, owing to the doubt which hangs over the first syllable, "I", followed by "chabod". It is usually taken to mean a simple negative: "not": chabod signifying "glory", I-chabod thus represents "not glory", i.e., there is no glory. Others render the "I" syllable as a rhetorical question , "Where?", "Where is the glory?", the answer, of course, being, "It is nowhere". But the best rendering seems to be to understand the syllable "I" as an exclamation of bitter sorrow, "Alas!": the name then could be translated, "Alas! the glory". The Septuagint states that his name was a complaint: Uaebarchaboth , woe to the glory of Israel . The Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 also refers to him as ouai barchaboth , i.e. as I Bar Chabod - I, son of Chabod or No, son of Glory . According to textual scholars , this section of the Book of Samuel, the sanctuaries source , derives from a fairly late source compared with other parts, and hence this justification of his name may simply be a folk etymology . While Ichabod is barely mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the fact that Ahitub is elsewhere referred to as the brother of Ichabod, rather than as son of Phinehas (or of anyone else), has led textual scholars to suspect that Ichabod was considered a significant individual in the days of Samuel. 1 Samuel 14:2–3 Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Samuel 4 , accessed 23 April 2017 1 Samuel 4:21–22 Yairah Amit , "Progression as a Rhetorical Device in Biblical Literature" JSOT 28 (2003) 13.1
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 916103523.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Ichabod ( inglorious ) is named by the Books of Samuel as the brother of Ahitub . Ichabod is also identified by the Books of Samuel as having been the son of Phinehas , and as having been born on the day that the Ark was taken into Philistine captivity . His mother went into labour due to the shock of hearing that her husband and father-in-law died and the Ark had been captured. The identity and name of his mother is not given, and she is said to have died shortly after having given birth to him, and having named him. In the masoretic version of the Books of Samuel, his name is said to be a reference to the fact that the glory is departed from Israel , either in reference to the death of his father, or of Eli , or a reference to the loss of the Ark. The Septuagint , however, states that his name was a complaint: woe to the glory of Israel . The Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 refers to him as ouai barchaboth , i.e. as I Bar Chabod - I, son of Chabod or No, son of Glory . According to textual scholars , this section of the Book of Samuel, the sanctuaries source , derives from a fairly late source compared with other parts, and hence this justification of his name may simply be a folk etymology . While Ichabod is barely mentioned in the current text of the Hebrew Bible, the fact that Ahitub is referred to as the brother of Ichabod, rather than as son of Phinehas (or of anyone else), has led textual scholars to suspect that Ichabod was once seen as a far more significant individual, although the reasons for his importance are no longer known. Some scholars have argued that Ichabod may be the historic figure underlying the biblical Jacob , having first concluded that both Jacob and Ichabod are corruptions of Jochebed / Jocabod , meaning yahweh is the [divine] glory . 1 Samuel 14:2–3 with invalid book Jewish Encyclopedia , Books of Samuel Jewish Encyclopedia Cheyne and Black, Encyclopedia Biblica
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 370920888.
The opening as it stood in 2015 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Ichabod ( inglorious ) is named by the Books of Samuel as the brother of Ahitub . Ichabod is also identified by the Books of Samuel as having been the son of Phinehas , and as having been born on the day that the Ark was taken into Philistine captivity . His mother went into labour due to the shock of hearing that her husband and father-in-law had died and that the Ark had been captured.In the Book of 1 Samuel, his name is said to be a reference to: the glory has departed from Israel, because of the loss of the Ark to the Philistines, and a lesser reference to the deaths of her father-in-law, Eli and her husband, Phinehas .She repeats the phrase, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured," to show her piety, and that the public and spiritual loss lay heavier upon her spirit than her personal or domestic calamity.Yairah Amit suggests that his name indicates "the fate of this newborn child who would have no parents, no grandfather and not even God, because even the glory has departed from the place." The Septuagint , however, states that his name was a complaint: woe to the glory of Israel . The Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 refers to him as ouai barchaboth , i.e. as I Bar Chabod - I, son of Chabod or No, son of Glory . According to textual scholars , this section of the Book of Samuel, the sanctuaries source , derives from a fairly late source compared with other parts, and hence this justification of his name may simply be a folk etymology . While Ichabod is barely mentioned in the current text of the Hebrew Bible, the fact that Ahitub is referred to as the brother of Ichabod, rather than as son of Phinehas (or of anyone else), has led textual scholars to suspect that Ichabod was once seen as a far more significant individual, although the reasons for his importance are no longer known. 1 Samuel 14:2–3 with invalid book 1 Samuel 4:21–22 with invalid book Yairah Amit , "Progression as a Rhetorical Device in Biblical Literature." JSOT 28 (2003) 13.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 656329595.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 12 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Biblical figure This article is about the biblical figure.Ichabod ( ʼīyḵāḇōḏ , – without glory , or " where is the glory? His mother went into labour due to the shock of hearing that her husband and Eli , her father-in-law, had died and that the Ark had been captured. He is also named later as the brother of Ahitub . 1 Samuel 4:2–3
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1138329090.
The opening as it stood in 2025
The fall of the statue of Dagon near the Ark captured by the Philistines Biblical figure This article is about the biblical figure.Ichabod ( Hebrew : אִיכָבוֹד ʾĪḵāḇōḏ , "without glory", or "where is the glory?") is mentioned in the first Book of Samuel as the son of Phinehas , a priest at the biblical shrine of Shiloh , who was born on the day that the Israelites ' Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity . His mother went into labour due to the shock of hearing that her husband and Eli , her father-in-law, had died and that the Ark had been captured. He is also named later as the brother of Ahitub . 1 Samuel 4:2–3
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1297013485. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
“disputed” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
disputed
0
0
1
0
0
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2020.
Then
named by the books of samuel as the brother of ahitub
Now
glory?
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
