Nehemiah 7:38 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 7:38

and the descendants of Senaah, 3,930.

BSB

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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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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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7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
סְנָאָ֔ה	se.na.'Ah	Senaah	H5570 →
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	three	H7969 →
אֲלָפִ֔ים	'a.la.Fim	thousand<s>	H505 →
תְּשַׁ֥ע	te.Sha'	nine	H8672 →
מֵא֖וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃ פ	u.she.lo.Shim	and thirty	H7970 →

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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