Nehemiah 7:29
in Nehemiah 7the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
KJV
The men of Kirjath–jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
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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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַנְשֵׁ֨י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| קִרְיַ֤ת | kiryat | Kiriath | H7157 → | |
| יְעָרִים֙ | yearim | Jearim | H7157 → | |
| כְּפִירָ֣ה | kefirah | Kephirah | H3716 → | |
| וּבְאֵר֔וֹת | uveerot | and Beeroth | H881 → | |
| שְׁבַ֥ע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| אַרְבָּעִ֥ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ ס | usheloshah | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
אַנְשֵׁ֨י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
קִרְיַ֤תKiriath
kiryatH7157 →
יְעָרִים֙Jearim
yearimH7157 →
כְּפִירָ֣הKephirah
kefirahH3716 →
וּבְאֵר֔וֹתand Beeroth
uveerotH881 →
שְׁבַ֥עseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
אַרְבָּעִ֥יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ סand three
usheloshahH7969 →432 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
Joshua 18:25Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
it leads to
- Joshua 9:17
So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Joshua 15:34
Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
- Joshua 9:17
Through
Judges 18:12They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. That is why the place west of Kiriath-jearim is called Mahaneh-dan to this day.
it leads to
- Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- 1 Chronicles 13:5–6
So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
- Joshua 15:60
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, along with their villages.
- Judges 13:25
Through
Joshua 9:17So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
it leads to
- Joshua 18:25–28
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
- Ezra 2:25
the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
- Joshua 18:25–28
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).