Nehemiah 7:27
in Nehemiah 7the men of Anathoth, 128;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.
KJV
The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַנְשֵׁ֣י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| עֲנָת֔וֹת | anatot | Anathoth | H6068 → | 15 times |
| מֵאָ֖ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ ס | ushemonah | and eight | H8083 → | 109 times |
אַנְשֵׁ֣י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
עֲנָת֔וֹתAnathoth
anatotH6068 →15 times
מֵאָ֖הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ סand eight
ushemonahH8083 →109 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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.
Through
Isaiah 10:30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
it leads to
- Jeremiah 1:1
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Joshua 21:18
Anathoth, and Almon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 25:44
But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
- Jeremiah 1:1
Through
Jeremiah 1:1These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 11:21
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 1:3
the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 32:7–9
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
- Jeremiah 11:21
Through
Jeremiah 11:21Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by…
it leads to
- Amos 2:12
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
- Amos 2:12
About Nehemiah
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).