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Ezra 2:21

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:21 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.
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Ezra 2:21 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/ezra/2/21.

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The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Bethlehem were 123.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the men of Bethlehem, 123;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the men of Bethlehem, 123;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The sonnes of Beth-lehem, an hundreth and three and twentie:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Sons of Beth-Lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    sons of Beth-Lehem, one hundred twenty-three;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The men of Bethlehem: 123.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Bethlehem were 123.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty-three.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the people from Bethlehem, 123;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred and twenty-three.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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6
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5
distinct lemmas
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section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 nouns
  • 3 adjectives

Repetition

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

  • בֵֽית Bethlehem H1035 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 8 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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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.

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Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:50–52 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 2:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י בֵֽית לָ֔חֶם מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה

The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:21 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός βαιθλεεμ ἑκατόν εἴκοσι τρεῖς

The children of Bethlaem, one hundred and twenty-three.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on Ezra 2:21 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

2:21-35 The people of . . . The citizens of: Some of the returnees were identified by their towns of origin. Apparently, not all knew their genealogical histories or had large families with renowned leaders. Most of the cities mentioned were concentrated in a relatively small area in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

That is, inhabitants, for so this word (some) signifieth when it is joined with the names of places.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 21. The children of Beth-lehem] The inhabitants: see before.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

21. Beth-lehem] or ‘the house of bread’: sometimes called Bethlehem of Judah to distinguish it from the Bethlehem in Zebulon (Jos_19:15). Its name implies the fruitfulness of the soil. The name of Ephrath or Ephratah by which it was known in earlier times has also the meaning of plenty (cf. Gen_35:19; Mic_5:1; Rth_1:2). The story of Ruth lies in Bethlehem. Ibzan the Judge was a native of Bethlehem (Jdg_12:8). Its greatest fame in the O. T. is derived from its having been the birthplace of David (1Sa_17:12) and of the sons of Zeruiah (2Sa_2:32). It was only a village, but the prophet predicted its glory in the Messianic future (Mic_5:1), in words, of which the literal fulfilment is recorded in Mat_2:1 &c.; Luk_2:1 &c.; cf. Joh_7:42.

It is situated about 5 miles S. of Jerusalem on high ground, some 2500 ft. above the level of the sea.

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.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Either of a man called

Beth-lehem, or the Beth-lehemite, by way of eminency; or of the place so called. And so these were the remainders of the inhabitants of that city. And the like may be said of the two following names, Netophah and Anathoth, or others of the like nature.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Beth-lehem - And so these were the remainders of the inhabitants of that city. (And the like may be said of the two following names, Netophah and Anathoth, or others of the like nature.) So little was Beth-lehem among the thousands of Judah! Yet thence must the Messiah arise.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bêyth Lechem (“Bethlehem”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Bethlehem” (Bêyth Lechem) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does 1 Chronicles 2:50–52, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “Bethlehem” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. 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?
  5. Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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