Ezra 2:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

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כְּפִירָ֣ה

Kᵉphîyrâh

H3716

“Chephirah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 9:17

Full BDB Definition

Origin: feminine of H3715

TWOT: None

Chephirah = "lioness" - a city of the Gibeonites subsequently assigned to the tribe of Benjamin

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 →

9: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is כְּפִירָ֣ה Chephirah H3716 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

כְּפִירָ֣ה Chephirah H3716 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
4 adjectives

Repetition

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

קִרְיַ֤ת Kirjath-jearim H7157 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 8 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 2:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 9:17 The children of Israel traveled, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
Nehemiah 7:29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 2:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֨י קִרְיַ֤ת עָרִים֙ כְּפִירָ֣ה וּבְאֵר֔וֹת שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה

The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:25 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός καριαθιαριμ καφιρα καί βηρωθ ἑπτακόσιοι τεσσαράκοντα τρεῖς

The children of Cariathiarim, Chaphira, and Beroth, seven hundred and forty-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 2:25 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

25. Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth] Gibeonite cities, see Josh, Jos_9:17 ‘Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim’ (R.V.) ‘Kirjath-arim’ (Kiriath-arim R.V.) called in Neh_7:29 Kiriath-jearim, or ‘the city of the woods’. The spelling in our verse is probably due to an early error in the text. Its former name was Baalah (Jos_15:9). It was assigned to Judah and lay on the border of Judah and Benjamin. The ark rested here after it had been restored by the Philistines (1Sa_6:21; 1Sa_7:1), and David brought it from here to Jerusalem (1Ch_13:5-6; 2Ch_1:4; 2Sa_6:2, ‘Baale Judah,’ cf. Jos_18:14). From the description given in Jos_15:8-11 it must have been situate about 9 miles N.W. of Jerusalem. Chephirah, modern Kefireh, a little N. of Kiriath.

Beeroth] = ‘wells’, the native place of the two Benjamite assassins of Ishbosheth, Baanah and Rechab (2Sa_4:2), now known as Bireh 12 miles N. of Jerusalem on the road to Nablûs. It is here that according to tradition the child Jesus was first missed by Joseph and Mary (Luk_2:44).

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

Kirath-arim, or Kirjath-jearim, as it is Neh 7:29.

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

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Kᵉphîyrâh (“Chephirah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Kᵉphîyrâh carries the sense “Chephirah.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Joshua 9:17, which shares the word «Chephirah», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Kirjath-jearim” (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 Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
“Kirjath-jearim” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.