Ezra 2:67
in Ezra 2435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
KJV
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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This verse in Ezra 2
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The whole congregation together was
on Ezra 2:64-67
John Gill totals the family counts and finds them nearly twelve thousand short of the stated forty two thousand three hundred and threescore, a gap the Jewish tradition he cites explains as members of other tribes who joined the builders without a family count of their own. Servants, maids and two hundred singers travel with the congregation, and the caravan's wealth is counted in animals too, horses, mules, camels and asses, riches a people stripped bare by exile now carries home. Adam Clarke reads the numbers as evidence of restored fortune after captivity, though he notes the manuscripts vary on the horses' own count.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"A canticle of David, when the house was built after the captivity." So far as the literal sense is concerned, the heading points to the time when the temple at Jerusalem is known to have been refurbished by Zerubbabel, son of Salathiel, after it had …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
It was not with them now as in days past. But notice is taken of 200 singing-men and women whom they had among them, who, we will suppose, were intended (as those 2 Chron. xxxv. 25 ) to excite their mourning, for it was foretold that they should, upon this occasion, go weeping ( Jer. l.
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The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| גְּמַ֨לֵּיהֶ֔ם | gemaleihem | camels their | H1581 → | |
| אַרְבַּ֥ע | ʾarba' | four | H702 → | 318 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים | sheloshim | thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
| וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑ה | vachamishah | and five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| חֲמֹרִ֕ים | chamorim | donkeys | H2543 → | |
| שֵׁ֣שֶׁת | sheshet | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| אֲלָפִ֔ים | ʾalafim | thousand<s> | H505 → | 505 times |
| שְׁבַ֥ע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ פ | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
גְּמַ֨לֵּיהֶ֔םcamels their
gemaleihemH1581 →
אַרְבַּ֥עfour
ʾarba'H702 →318 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםthirty
sheloshimH7970 →172 times
וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑הand five
vachamishahH2568 →343 times
חֲמֹרִ֕יםdonkeys
chamorimH2543 →
שֵׁ֣שֶׁתsix
sheshetH8337 →216 times
אֲלָפִ֔יםthousand<s>
ʾalafimH505 →505 times
שְׁבַ֥עseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ פand twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 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; Cassiodorus, EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 95.1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.