Nehemiah 7:28
in Nehemiah 7the men of Beth-azmaveth, 42;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.
KJV
The men of Beth–azmaveth, forty 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 men of Bethlehem and Netophah
on Nehemiah 7:26-38
The register changes its axis: from verse twenty-six the roll counts men by the town they returned to rather than the ancestor. Genealogy and geography together are one register's two halves, the household traced by blood and then set back down on the map it left.
This site's exposition
the men of Beth-azmaveth
Beth-azmaveth is the fuller form of the name Ezra 2:24 gives as Azmaveth, and both lists count 42. The singers later built villages for themselves around Geba and Azmaveth, according to 12:29. The town lay close enough to serve Jerusalem.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַנְשֵׁ֥י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| בֵית־ | veit- | Beth | H1041 → | |
| עַזְמָ֖וֶת | ʾazmavet | Azmaveth | H1041 → | |
| אַרְבָּעִ֥ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ ס | ushenayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
אַנְשֵׁ֥י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
בֵית־Beth
veit-H1041 →
עַזְמָ֖וֶתAzmaveth
ʾazmavetH1041 →
אַרְבָּעִ֥יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two
ushenayimH8147 →768 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).