בְּנֵ֣י יוֹרָ֔ה מֵאָ֖ה וּשְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר
The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:18 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 Jorah, one hundred twelve.
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Jorah were 112.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
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 Jorah, one hundred twelve.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Jorah, 112;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Jorah, 112;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Iorah, an hudreth and twelue:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Jorah, one hundred and twelve;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of Jorah: 112.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Jorah were 112.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Jorah, 112;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
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יוֹרָ֔ה
Yôwrâh
H3139
“Jorah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Jorah = "he instructs"
- the head or ancestor of a family who returned from Babylon with Ezra
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יוֹרָ֔ה Yôwrâh H3139 “Jorah” Noun, Proper
- מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וּשְׁנֵ֥ים shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
- עָשָֽׂר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, 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 →
- 5
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- יוֹרָ֔ה Jorah H3139
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- יוֹרָ֔ה Jorah H3139
Grammatical profile
- 2 nouns
- 3 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 5 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
1Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 7:24 The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve.
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 ιωρα ἑκατόν δέκα δύο
The children of Jora, one hundred and twelve.
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 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yôwrâh (“Jorah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Jorah” (Yôwrâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- This is the first place “Jorah” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Nehemiah 7:24, which shares this passage’s theme, 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
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 2:18 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.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.