Nehemiah 12:11
in Nehemiah 12Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
KJV
And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
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This verse in Nehemiah 12
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also
on Nehemiah 12:10-11
A single priestly line runs six generations from Jeshua, who came up with Zerubbabel, to Jaddua: Joiakim, Eliashib, Joiada, Jonathan, then Jaddua. From this point the book measures its years not by the reigns of Judah's kings, since Judah had none, but by the succession of these high priests. Josephus records that Jaddua was the priest who met Alexander the Great after the fall of Tyre and Gaza, so the register's final name reaches past Nehemiah's own generation into the record's later keeping.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Now Jeshua begot Joiakim, etc. All those [listed] in this verse were high priests.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And in the days of Joiakim who was the high priest. These priests were the leaders of the fathers’ houses of their watches.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיוֹיָדָע֙ | veyoyada' | and Joiada | H3111 → | 5 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יוֹנָתָ֔ן | yonatan | Jonathan | H3129 → | 43 times |
| וְיוֹנָתָ֖ן | veyonatan | and Jonathan | H3129 → | 43 times |
| הוֹלִ֥יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יַדּֽוּעַ׃ | yadua' | Jaddua | H3037 → | 3 times |
וְיוֹיָדָע֙and Joiada
veyoyada'H3111 →5 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יוֹנָתָ֔ןJonathan
yonatanH3129 →43 times
וְיוֹנָתָ֖ןand Jonathan
veyonatanH3129 →43 times
הוֹלִ֥ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יַדּֽוּעַ׃Jaddua
yadua'H3037 →3 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Nehemiah
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.