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Nehemiah 7:51

in Nehemiah 7

the descendants of Gazzam, the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.

KJV

The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,

This verse in Nehemiah 7

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Or 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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

6 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H11214930 times

  • גַזָּ֥םGazzam

    gazamH1502

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H11214930 times

  • עֻזָּ֖אUzzah

    ʾuza'H5798

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • פָסֵֽחַ׃Paseah

    faseachH6454

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.