Nehemiah 7:30
in Nehemiah 7the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
KJV
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
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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 Ramah and Geba
Ramah and Geba both stand in Isaiah 10:29 on Assyria's line of march toward Jerusalem. King Asa fortified Geba with the stones Baasha had used at Ramah, 1 Kings 15:22. Both lists count 621.
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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַנְשֵׁ֤י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| הָֽרָמָה֙ | haramah | <the> Ramah | H7414 → | |
| וָגָ֔בַע | vagava' | and Geba | H1387 → | 19 times |
| שֵׁ֥שׁ | shesh | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְאֶחָֽד׃ ס | veechad | and one | H259 → | 971 times |
אַנְשֵׁ֤י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
הָֽרָמָה֙<the> Ramah
haramahH7414 →
וָגָ֔בַעand Geba
vagava'H1387 →19 times
שֵׁ֥שׁsix
sheshH8337 →216 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וְאֶחָֽד׃ סand one
veechadH259 →971 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach 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 2:26the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
it leads to
- Joshua 18:24–25
Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.
- Joshua 18:24–25
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Nehemiah
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
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).