Nehemiah 7:9
in Nehemiah 7the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
KJV
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy 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 descendants of Parosh
on Nehemiah 7:8-25
Eighteen verses run through clan after clan, each counted by its ancestor's name and a number. The register works by descent through the father's line. A list that reads as bare arithmetic is doing legal work, fixing each household's place in Israel by the name it can prove.
This site's exposition
the descendants of Shephatiah
The Shephatiah family counts 372, the same figure Ezra 2:4 gives. A second company of 80 men from this family came up later with Ezra under Zebadiah son of Michael, Ezra 8:8. The same name heads a separate family at verse 59.
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
6 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 |
| שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה | shefatyah | Shephatiah | H8203 → | 13 times |
| שְׁלֹ֥שׁ | shelosh | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שִׁבְעִ֥ים | shivim | seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ ס | ushenayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
שְׁפַטְיָ֔הShephatiah
shefatyahH8203 →13 times
שְׁלֹ֥שׁthree
sheloshH7969 →432 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy
shivimH7657 →91 times
וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two
ushenayimH8147 →768 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach 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 2:4the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
it leads to
- Ezra 8:8
from the descendants of Shephatiah, Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him 80 men;
- Ezra 8:8
Through
Ezra 8:8from the descendants of Shephatiah, Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him 80 men;
it leads to
- Nehemiah 11:4
while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.) From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the…
- Ezra 2:4
the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
- Nehemiah 11:4
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.