Nehemiah 7:38
in Nehemiah 7and the descendants of Senaah, 3,930.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
KJV
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
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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 descendants of Senaah
Senaah is the largest single entry in the register at 3,930. Ezra 2:35 gives three hundred fewer. The sons of Hassenaah, a name very close to this one, rebuilt the Fish Gate at 3:3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| סְנָאָ֔ה | senaah | Senaah | H5570 → | |
| שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת | sheloshet | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| אֲלָפִ֔ים | ʾalafim | thousand<s> | H505 → | 505 times |
| תְּשַׁ֥ע | tesha' | nine | H8672 → | 58 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃ פ | usheloshim | and thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
סְנָאָ֔הSenaah
senaahH5570 →
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתthree
sheloshetH7969 →432 times
אֲלָפִ֔יםthousand<s>
ʾalafimH505 →505 times
תְּשַׁ֥עnine
tesha'H8672 →58 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃ פand thirty
usheloshimH7970 →172 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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the 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).