Nehemiah 7:8
in Nehemiah 7the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy and two.
KJV
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
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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
The children of Parosh
on Nehemiah 7:8-25
Eighteen verses run through clan after clan, each counted only by its ancestor's name and a number: the children of Parosh, of Shephatiah, of Arah, down to the children of Gibeon. The register works by patrilineal descent, the same method Ezra 2 already used to sort a returning people back into their tribes and families. A list that reads as bare arithmetic is doing legal work, fixing each household's place in Israel by the name it can prove.
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 children of Parosh - As this chapter is almost entirely the same with the second chapter of the book of Ezra, it is not necessary to add any thing to what is said there; and to that chapter, and the accompanying notes, the reader is requested to refer.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| פַרְעֹ֔שׁ | farosh | Parosh | H6551 → | 6 times |
| אַלְפַּ֕יִם | ʾalpayim | two thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| מֵאָ֖ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים | veshivim | and seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ ס | ushenayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
פַרְעֹ֔שׁParosh
faroshH6551 →6 times
אַלְפַּ֕יִםtwo thousand
ʾalpayimH505 →505 times
מֵאָ֖הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםand seventy
veshivimH7657 →91 times
וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two
ushenayimH8147 →768 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
Ezra 8:3from the descendants of David, Hattush of the descendants of Shecaniah; from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered 150 men;
it leads to
- Ezra 2:3
the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
- Ezra 2:3
Through
Ezra 2:3the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
it leads to
- Ezra 8:3
from the descendants of David, Hattush of the descendants of Shecaniah; from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered 150 men;
- Ezra 10:25
And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.
- Ezra 8:3
Through
Nehemiah 10:14And the leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
it leads to
- Nehemiah 7:15
the descendants of Binnui, 648;
- Nehemiah 7:11–13
the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;
- Nehemiah 3:11
Malchijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-moab repaired another section, as well as the Tower of the Ovens.
- Ezra 2:3–70
the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
- Nehemiah 7:15
Through
Nehemiah 10:25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
it leads to
- Nehemiah 3:17–32
Next to him, the Levites made repairs under Rehum son of Bani, and next to him, Hashabiah, ruler of a half-district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
- Nehemiah 3:17–32
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.