Nehemiah 12:2
in Nehemiah 12Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
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Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
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This verse in Nehemiah 12
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAmariah, Malluch, Hattush,.... Whose names are among the sealers of the covenant, Neh 10:3. Malluch is afterwards called Melicu, Neh 12:14, Shechaniah, called Shebaniah, Neh 12:14 and so in Neh 10:4 Rehum, who, by transposition of letters, is Harim, Neh 12:15, and so in Neh 10:5. Meremoth, called Meraioth, Neh 12:15, Iddo, Ginnetho, read Ginnethon, Neh 12:16 so in Neh 10:6. Abijah; there was a course of a priest of this name, of which Zechariah the father of John the Baptist was, Luk 1:5. Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah; the first two are called Miniamin and Moadiah, Neh 12:
This site's exposition
went up with Zerubbabel
on Nehemiah 12:1-9
The register opens with "the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua." Twenty-two priestly names stand against the twenty-four courses David ordered, a gap the commentators trace to courses that never returned from Babylon.
This site's exposition
Amariah, Malluch, Hattush
Gill finds Amariah, Malluch and Hattush among the sealers of the covenant at 10:3-4. A Hattush of David's line came up with Ezra at Ezra 8:3, a different man from the priestly house named here. Amariah's house has Jehohanan at its head at 12:13.
The words behind it
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲמַרְיָ֥ה | ʾamaryah | Amariah | H568 → | 16 times |
| מַלּ֖וּךְ | malukh | Malluch | H4409 → | 7 times |
| חַטּֽוּשׁ׃ | chatush | Hattush | H2407 → | 5 times |
אֲמַרְיָ֥הAmariah
ʾamaryahH568 →16 times
מַלּ֖וּךְMalluch
malukhH4409 →7 times
חַטּֽוּשׁ׃Hattush
chatushH2407 →5 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Nehemiah
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.