Ezra 10:24
in Ezra 10From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
KJV
Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Also of the Levites
on Ezra 10:23-24
The roll moves from priests to Levites, singers and porters, the temple's supporting orders named in turn after its chief officers. Only a handful of names appear in each order, six Levites, one singer, three porters, against the much longer priestly and lay lists on either side of them. The proportion is itself a kind of witness: the failure ran widest among the laity, not the temple's smaller staff.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his,
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִן־ | umin- | and of | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים | hamshorerim | the singers | H7891 → | 86 times |
| אֶלְיָשִׁ֑יב | ʾelyashiv | Eliashib | H475 → | 17 times |
| וּמִן־ | umin- | and of | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔ים | hashoarim | the gatekeepers | H7778 → | 37 times |
| שַׁלֻּ֥ם | shalum | Shallum | H7967 → | 27 times |
| וָטֶ֖לֶם | vatelem | and Telem | H2928 → | |
| וְאוּרִֽי׃ ס | veuri | and Uri | H221 → |
וּמִן־and of
umin-H4480 →1188 times
הַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖יםthe singers
hamshorerimH7891 →86 times
אֶלְיָשִׁ֑יבEliashib
ʾelyashivH475 →17 times
וּמִן־and of
umin-H4480 →1188 times
הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔יםthe gatekeepers
hashoarimH7778 →37 times
שַׁלֻּ֥םShallum
shalumH7967 →27 times
וָטֶ֖לֶםand Telem
vatelemH2928 →
וְאוּרִֽי׃ סand Uri
veuriH221 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Ezra
This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.