בְּנֵ֣י מַגְבִּ֔ישׁ מֵאָ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה
The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:30
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:30 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 Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
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 Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Magbish were 156.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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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 Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Magbish, 156;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Magbish, 156;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Magbish, an hundreth and sixe and fiftie:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Megbis, a hundred fifty-six.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Magbish: 156.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Magbish were 156.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Magbish, a hundred and fifty-six.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Magbish, 156;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Magbish, a hundred and fifty-six.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
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מַגְבִּ֔ישׁ
Magbîysh
H4019
“Magbish”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Magbish = "congregating"
- head of a family of returning exiles
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מַגְבִּ֔ישׁ Magbîysh H4019 “Magbish” Noun, Proper
- מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים chămishshîym H2572 “fifty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְשִׁשָּֽׁה shêsh H8337 “and · six” Conjunction + 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:
- מַגְבִּ֔ישׁ Magbish H4019
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- מַגְבִּ֔ישׁ Magbish H4019
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.
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 μαγεβως ἑκατόν πεντήκοντα ἕξ
The children of Magebis, one hundred and 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 →
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 Magbîysh (“Magbish”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Magbîysh carries the sense “Magbish.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- This is the first place “Magbish” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- 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
- 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 8 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 2:30 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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).