בְּנֵ֣י בָנִ֔י שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:10 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Bani were 642.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Bani, 642;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Bani, 642;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Bani, sixe hundreth and two and fourtie:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Bani, six hundred forty-two;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of Bani: 642.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Bani were 642.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Bani, 642;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
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בָנִ֔י
Bânîy
H1137
“Bani”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Samuel 23:36
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Bani = "built"
- a Gadite, one of David's mighty warriors
- a Levite of the line of Merari, and forefather to Ethan
- a man of Judah of the line of Pharez
- " children of Bani" returned from captivity with Zerubbabel
- one or up to three Levites in Nehemiah's time
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בָנִ֔י Bânîy H1137 “Bani” Noun, Proper
- שֵׁ֥שׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “forty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁנָֽיִם shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בָנִ֔י Bani H1137 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בָנִ֔י Bani H1137 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 nouns
- 4 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 8 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 5 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.
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 10:34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
- Nehemiah 7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
υἱός βανουι ἑξακόσιοι τεσσαράκοντα δύο
The children of Banui, six hundred and forty-two.
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.
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 →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bânîy (“Bani”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Bânîy carries the sense “Bani.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 2 Samuel 23:36, which shares the word «Bani», read alongside this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.