Ezra 2:34

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יְרֵח֔וֹ

Yᵉrîychôw

H3405

“Jericho”

Noun, Proper

Appears 57× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 22:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps from H3394

TWOT: 915

Jericho = "its moon" - a city 5 miles (8 kilometers) west of the Jordan and 7 miles (11.5 kilometers) north of the Dead Sea and the first city conquered by the Israelites upon entering the promised land of Canaan

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 →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְרֵח֔וֹ Jericho H3405 occurs in 53 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 nouns
4 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 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 16:34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation of it with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates of it with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
2 Chronicles 28:15 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
Nehemiah 7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

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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 2:34 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י יְרֵח֔וֹ שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:34 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ιεριχω τριακόσιοι τεσσαράκοντα πέντε

The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

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 2:34 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

34. Jericho] or the city of palms (Deu_34:3; Jdg_1:16; 2Ch_28:15), destroyed by Joshua (Joshua 6), rebuilt by Hiel the Bethelite in the days of Ahab (1Ki_16:34) and apparently included in the Northern Kingdom. It was the home of one of the schools of the prophets (2Ki_2:5).

It is now called Rîcha or Ericha. It is distant about 18 miles E. from Jerusalem, and 1½ W. from the Jordan.

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.

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General Information:

This continues with the list of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group whose ancestors came from the places listed. (See: Numbers)

Senaah

This is the name of a place. (See: How to Translate Names)

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Jericho

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Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

How does “Jericho” (Yᵉrîychôw) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 22:1, which shares the word «Jericho», read alongside this verse?
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?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.