Nehemiah 7:21
in Nehemiah 7the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah), 98;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
KJV
The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
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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 descendants of Parosh
on Nehemiah 7:8-25
Eighteen verses run through clan after clan, each counted by its ancestor's name and a number. The register works by descent through the father's line. A list that reads as bare arithmetic is doing legal work, fixing each household's place in Israel by the name it can prove.
This site's exposition
the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah)
Ater's family is traced through Hezekiah, the only lay entry besides Pahath-moab given a named branch. Both this verse and Ezra 2:16 count 98, and at 10:17 Ater and Hezekiah stand side by side on the covenant roll. A gatekeeping family of Ater appears at verse 45.
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵֽי־ | benei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אָטֵ֥ר | ʾater | Ater | H333 → | 5 times |
| לְחִזְקִיָּ֖ה | lechizkiyah | of Hezekiah | H2396 → | |
| תִּשְׁעִ֥ים | tishim | ninety | H8673 → | 20 times |
| וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ ס | ushemonah | and eight | H8083 → | 109 times |
בְּנֵֽי־[the] descendants of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
אָטֵ֥רAter
ʾaterH333 →5 times
לְחִזְקִיָּ֖הof Hezekiah
lechizkiyahH2396 →
תִּשְׁעִ֥יםninety
tishimH8673 →20 times
וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ סand eight
ushemonahH8083 →109 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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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.