Ezra 2:29

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

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נְב֖וֹ

Nᵉbôw

H5015

“Nebo”

Noun, Proper

Appears 13× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 32:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably of foreign derivation

TWOT: 1279, 1280

Nebo = "prophet" - a Babylonian deity who presided over learning and letters; corresponds to Greek Hermes, Latin Mercury, and Egyptian Thoth (noun proper masculine) - a city in Moab and at one time assigned to Reuben; probably located on or near Mount Nebo (noun proper locative) - a city in Judah (maybe Benjamin) from which the families of some exiles, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, originally came (noun proper locative) - the mountain where Moses died; located east of the Jordan opposite Jericho; site uncertain (noun proper locative)

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 נְב֖וֹ Nebo H5015 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נְב֖וֹ Nebo H5015 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

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 2:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Deuteronomy 32:49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
Nehemiah 7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
Isaiah 15:2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
Jeremiah 48:1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
Jeremiah 48:22 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 2:29 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֥י נְב֖וֹ חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם

The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

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Greek LXX Ezra 2:29 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ναβου πεντήκοντα δύο

The children of Nabu, fifty-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 →

Commentary

Notes on Ezra 2:29 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

29. Nebo] not to be confused with the Moabite town (Num_32:3; Num_32:38), to distinguish it from which it is perhaps called in Neh_7:33 ‘the other Nebo’. Its situation has not been accurately determined. Some identify it with Nob, the well-known priestly town (see 1Sa_21:1; 1Sa_22:9 &c.), and in favour of this view it may be noticed that while Nob is mentioned along with Geba, Michmash, Ai, Bethel and Anathoth in Neh_11:31-32, and after Ai, Michmash, Geba, Ramah and Anathoth in Isa_10:28-32, Nebo is not mentioned in either passage. The position of Nob is still uncertain.

Nebo and Nob have been recognised in Beit Nuba, a village on a hill about 16 miles N. W. N. of Jerusalem, but certainly erroneously. The site must be looked for on, or near Mt. Scopus, on the N. of Jerusalem; by some identified with the modern village Isâwiyeh.

Nebo is the name of a well-known Assyrian deity. The name of the place perhaps indicates that in a prehistoric time the worship of this god was maintained here (see note on ‘Anathoth’ Ezr_2:23).

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

Nebo. 2 Esdras (vii. 33.) adds, "of the other Nebo," as in some Latin copies a first had been mentioned, (ver. 30.) where we have Geba, (Calmet) here written Gabaa, ver. 26. (Haydock) --- Nebo belonged to some of the other tribes, as well as Phahath-Moab; which shews that some of the people returned, (Calmet) and are particularized, as well as the men of the three tribes of Juda, Benjamin, and Levi. (Haydock)

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 Nᵉbôw (“Nebo”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Nebo” (Nᵉbôw) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 32:3, which shares the word «Nebo», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 4 Hebrew ↔ 4 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.