Nehemiah 7:18
in Nehemiah 7the descendants of Adonikam, 667;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
KJV
The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
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This verse in Nehemiah 7
Commentary
3 notes on this verseOr perhaps one was the account of them when they set out from Babylon with Zerubbabel, the other when they came to Jerusalem. The sum totals are all just the same there and here, except of the singing-men and singing-women, which there are 200, here 245.
This site's exposition
The children of Parosh
on Nehemiah 7:8-25
Eighteen verses run through clan after clan, each counted only by its ancestor's name and a number: the children of Parosh, of Shephatiah, of Arah, down to the children of Gibeon. The register works by patrilineal descent, the same method Ezra 2 already used to sort a returning people back into their tribes and families. A list that reads as bare arithmetic is doing legal work, fixing each household's place in Israel by the name it can prove.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
He appointed the porters, singers, and Levites, in their places to their work. This is meant of their work in general, which was to attend the temple service; it had been neglected in some degree, but now was revived. God's worship is the defence of a place, and his ministers, when they mind their duty, are watchmen on the walls.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵי֙ | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֲדֹ֣נִיקָ֔ם | ʾadonikam | Adonikam | H140 → | |
| שֵׁ֥שׁ | shesh | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שִׁשִּׁ֥ים | shishim | sixty | H8346 → | 59 times |
| וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃ ס | veshivah | and seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
בְּנֵי֙[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
אֲדֹ֣נִיקָ֔םAdonikam
ʾadonikamH140 →
שֵׁ֥שׁsix
sheshH8337 →216 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שִׁשִּׁ֥יםsixty
shishimH8346 →59 times
וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃ סand seven
veshivahH7651 →394 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.