Ezra 2:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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נְטֹפָ֖ה

Nᵉṭôphâh

H5199

“Netophah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5197

TWOT: None

Netophah = "dropping" - a town in Judah resettled by the exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel

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
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is נְטֹפָ֖ה Netophah H5199 — 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:

נְטֹפָ֖ה Netophah H5199

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נְטֹפָ֖ה Netophah H5199 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Nehemiah 7:26

Grammatical profile

2 nouns
2 adjectives

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 5 words from the Hebrew and 5 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
1 Chronicles 2:54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
Nehemiah 7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
Jeremiah 40:8 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

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Hebrew Ezra 2:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אַנְשֵׁ֥י נְטֹפָ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה

The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:22 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός νετωφα πεντήκοντα ἕξ

The children of Netopha, fifty-six.

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 2:22 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

22. Netophah] According to 1Ch_9:16 a town inhabited by priests, the birthplace of two of David’s heroes, Mahari and Haled, 2Sa_23:28-29, and of Seraiah, one of Gedaliah’s supporters, 2Ki_25:23; Jer_40:8 (Ephai). It has been identified by some with Beit Nettîf, 20 miles W. of Bethlehem. But its place in the list between Bethlehem and Anathoth does not favour this theory. In the map of Palestine issued by the Pal. Explor. Fund it is placed due S. of Jerusalem, on the road to Bethlehem, between Mar Elias and Rachel’s Tomb.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Six. 2 Esdras puts the inhabitants of those two cities together, and makes 188, instead of the present calculation 179. (Calmet) --- Netupha was in Ephraim. (Du Hamel)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

What does “Netophah” (Nᵉṭôphâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
The word “Netophah” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Nehemiah 7:26 shares the word «Netophah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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 4 words in this verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.