Nehemiah 7:34
in Nehemiah 7the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
KJV
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
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This verse in Nehemiah 7
Commentary
4 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 Nineteenth Century1 voice
The other Elam - To distinguish him from the Elam mentioned Neh 7:12.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵי֙ | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עֵילָ֣ם | ʾeilam | Elam | H5867 → | 28 times |
| אַחֵ֔ר | ʾacher | [the] other | H312 → | 166 times |
| אֶ֕לֶף | ʾelef | one thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| מָאתַ֖יִם | matayim | two hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים | chamishim | fifty | H2572 → | 163 times |
| וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ ס | vearbaah | and four | H702 → | 318 times |
בְּנֵי֙[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
עֵילָ֣םElam
ʾeilamH5867 →28 times
אַחֵ֔ר[the] other
ʾacherH312 →166 times
אֶ֕לֶףone thousand
ʾelefH505 →505 times
מָאתַ֖יִםtwo hundred
matayimH3967 →581 times
חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםfifty
chamishimH2572 →163 times
וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ סand four
vearbaahH702 →318 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 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
Ezra 2:31the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
it leads to
- Ezra 2:7
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 2:7
Through
Nehemiah 7:12the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
it leads to
- Ezra 8:7
from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men;
- Ezra 10:26
From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
- Ezra 8:7
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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).