Ezra 10:37

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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ויעשו

Yaʻăsûw

H3299

“and · Jaasau”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6213

TWOT: None

Jaasau = "they will do" - one of the descendants of Bani who took a foreign wife during the time of Ezra

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

4: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is ויעשו Jaasau H3299 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

ויעשו Jaasau H3299

Grammatical profile

4 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

ויעשו Jaasau H3299 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 4 words from the Hebrew and 2 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 4 Hebrew tokens and 4 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezra 10:37 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מַתַּנְיָ֥ה מַתְּנַ֖י ויעשו וְיַעֲשָֽׂי

Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 10:37 Septuagint · lemma form

μαθανια μαθαναι καί ποιέω

Matthania, Matthanai:

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

In the Septuagint this is one book — Esdras B (2 Esdras): Ezra is chapters 1–10, Nehemiah 11–23.

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Ezra 10:37 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

37. and Jaasau] R.V. and Jaasu. Marg. ‘Another reading is, Jaasai’. The LXX. clearly had ‘Jaasu’, which they mistook for a verb and rendered ‘and they did or made’ (καὶ ἐποίησαν) regardless of the lack of meaning. The C’thib has ‘Jaasu’: the K’ri ‘Jaasai’.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

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General Information:

Ezra continues to list the men who married non-Jewish women. (See: How to Translate Names)

Mattaniah ... Adaiah

men's names. See how you translated this in Esra 10:26. (See: How to Translate Names)

Mattenai

man's name. See how you translated this in Esra 10:33. (See: How to Translate Names)

Binnui

man's name. See how you translated this in Esra 8:33. (See: How to Translate Names)

Shimei

man's name. See how you translated this in Esra 10:23. (See: How to Translate Names)

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 4 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yaʻăsûw (“Jaasau”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Jaasau” (Yaʻăsûw) shape what this verse is saying?
This is the first place “Jaasau” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
What does the repetition of “Jaasau” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 4 Hebrew ↔ 4 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“Jaasau” occurs 2× in this single verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.