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Nehemiah 12:13

in Nehemiah 12

of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

KJV

Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

This verse in Nehemiah 12

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah

on Nehemiah 12:12-21

A second list of course heads follows, one name set against each of the courses named in verses one through seven, now serving in the days of Joiakim the second generation after the return. Several of these names recur among the sealers of Nehemiah's covenant in chapter ten, the same men and their descendants signing the document their fathers' courses had first carried home. The priesthood renews itself by father's house across a generation exactly as Ezra's registers required at the return, name matched to name and course matched to course.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And in the days of Joiakim who was the high priest. These priests were the leaders of the fathers’ houses of their watches.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Nehemiah 12:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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

4 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • לְעֶזְרָ֣אof Ezra

    leezra'H583022 times

  • מְשֻׁלָּ֔םMeshullam

    meshulamH491825 times

  • לַאֲמַרְיָ֖הof Amariah

    laamaryahH56816 times

  • יְהוֹחָנָֽן׃Jehohanan

    yehochananH307611 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.