Nehemiah 7:26
in Nehemiah 7the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight.
KJV
The men of Beth–lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
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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
an hundred fourscore and eight
on Nehemiah 7:26-38
The register changes its axis without announcement: from verse twenty-six the roll counts men by the town they returned to rather than the ancestor they descended from, Bethlehem and Netophah, Anathoth, Jericho, Lod and Ono among them. Genealogy and geography together are one register's two halves, the household traced by blood and then set back down on the map it left. The town names read like a gazetteer of the province the wall now protects.
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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַנְשֵׁ֤י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| בֵֽית־ | veit- | Beth- | H1035 → | |
| לֶ֙חֶם֙ | lechem | -lehem | H1035 → | |
| וּנְטֹפָ֔ה | unetofah | and Netophah | H5199 → | |
| מֵאָ֖ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שְׁמֹנִ֥ים | shemonim | eighty | H8084 → | |
| וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ ס | ushemonah | and eight | H8083 → | 109 times |
אַנְשֵׁ֤י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
בֵֽית־Beth-
veit-H1035 →
לֶ֙חֶם֙-lehem
lechemH1035 →
וּנְטֹפָ֔הand Netophah
unetofahH5199 →
מֵאָ֖הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
שְׁמֹנִ֥יםeighty
shemonimH8084 →
וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ סand eight
ushemonahH8083 →109 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).