Ezra 2:39

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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חָרִ֔ם

Chârim

H2766

“Harim”

Noun, Proper

Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 24:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2763

TWOT: None

Harim = "dedicated" - a priest in the time of David who had charge of the 3rd course - head of a family of exiles totalling 1017 who returned with Zerubbabel - another head of a family of exiles totalling 320 who returned with Zerubbabel - a priest in the time of Nehemiah - a ruler of the people under Nehemiah

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

The rarest word here is חָרִ֔ם Harim H2766 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חָרִ֔ם Harim H2766 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

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 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 2:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Chronicles 24:8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
Ezra 10:21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Nehemiah 7:42 The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 2:39 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י חָרִ֔ם אֶ֖לֶף וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה עָשָֽׂר

The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:39 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ηρεμ χίλιοι ἑπτά

The children of Erem, a thousand and seven.

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 2:39 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

Ezr 2:39. The children of Harim — The head of one of the twenty-four courses which David appointed, (1Ch 24:8,) of all which courses, some observe here, are not above four or five that returned. There is another Harim mentioned above, Ezr 2:32, but that was no priest as this was, Ezr 2:36.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

39. Harim] The name of Harim appears in 1Ch_24:8 as that of the third priestly house.

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

The head of one of the twenty-four courses which David appointed, 1Ch 24:8; of all which courses, some observe, here are not above four or five that returned. There is another Harim mentioned above, Ezr 2:32, but that was no priest as this was, Ezr 2:35.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Harim - The head of one of the twenty four courses which David appointed, 1 Chron. xxiv, 8, of all which courses, some observe here are not above four or five that returned. There is another Harim mentioned above, ver. 32, but that was no priest, as this was ver. 36.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chârim (“Harim”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Harim” (Chârim) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 Chronicles 24:8 shares the word «Harim» 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 Joseph Benson's Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 4 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.