Nehemiah 7:46
in Nehemiah 7The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
KJV
The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
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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 Ziha
on Nehemiah 7:46-60
The Nethinims and the children of Solomon's servants close the temple household, thirty-five families of temple laborers named one by one though no descent from Israel is claimed for them. Their presence in the register beside priests and Levites gives even the lowest servants of the house a fixed place and a recorded name. The list treats a woodcutter's or a water carrier's family with the same care it gives a priest's.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַנְּתִינִ֑ים | hanetinim | the temple servants | H5411 → | 17 times |
| בְּנֵי־ | benei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| צִחָ֥א | tzicha' | Ziha | H6727 → | |
| בְנֵי־ | venei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| חֲשֻׂפָ֖א | chasufa' | Hasupha | H2817 → | |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| טַבָּעֽוֹת׃ | tabaot | Tabbaoth | H2884 → |
הַנְּתִינִ֑יםthe temple servants
hanetinimH5411 →17 times
בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
צִחָ֥אZiha
tzicha'H6727 →
בְנֵי־[the] descendants of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
חֲשֻׂפָ֖אHasupha
chasufa'H2817 →
בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
טַבָּעֽוֹת׃Tabbaoth
tabaotH2884 →
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
1 Chronicles 9:2Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
it leads to
- Ezra 2:58
The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 7:73
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had…
- Ezra 2:70
So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
- Ezra 8:20
They also brought 220 of the temple servants, all designated by name. David and the officials had appointed them to assist the Levites.
- Ezra 2:43
The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
- Ezra 2:58
Through
Ezra 2:43The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 9:2
Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
- Nehemiah 10:28
“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all…
- Nehemiah 7:46–56
The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
- 1 Chronicles 9:2
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.