Ezra 2:10
in Ezra 2the descendants of Bani, 642;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
KJV
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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This verse in Ezra 2
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The children of Parosh, two thousand
on Ezra 2:3-35
Verses 3 to 35 name family after family by ancestor or by hometown, the pattern Adam Clarke marks in his own notation: children of a person names descendants, children of a place names its former inhabitants. Every count stands as its own witness, since nothing else is known of most of these households beyond the number that came home. John Gill sets the list beside Nehemiah's parallel roll in his seventh chapter and finds the two registers agree in substance though not in every digit, one story kept by two hands.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Having arrived at Jerusalem, Ezra, inflamed with zeal for the Law, decided first of all to purify the people of their vices, since, as the prophet said, ―A wise king is the salvation of his people.‖ Having found the book of Moses, he showed, among …
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| בָנִ֔י | vani | Bani | H1137 → | 16 times |
| שֵׁ֥שׁ | shesh | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| אַרְבָּעִ֥ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ ס | ushenayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
בָנִ֔יBani
vaniH1137 →16 times
שֵׁ֥שׁsix
sheshH8337 →216 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
אַרְבָּעִ֥יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two
ushenayimH8147 →768 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Quodvultdeus, Commentary (church-history corpus).