Nehemiah 7:23 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 7:23

the descendants of Bezai, 324;

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

KJV

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

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Commentary

1 voice

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.

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6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
בֵצָ֔י	ve.Tzai	Bezai	H1209 →
שְׁלֹ֥שׁ	she.Losh	three	H7969 →
מֵא֖וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ ס	ve.'ar.ba.'Ah	and four	H702 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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