בְּנֵ֣י שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:4
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:4 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 Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Shephatiah were 372.
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 Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy two.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth, seuentie and two:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of Shephatiah: 372.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Shephatiah were 372.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Shephatiah, 372;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה
Shᵉphaṭyâh
H8203
“Shephatiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 13× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Samuel 3:4
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shephatiah = "Jehovah has judged"
- a son of David by Abital; David's 5th son
- head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel
- another head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel
- a Judaite, son of Mahalaleel and father of Amariah
- a prince of Judah, son of Mattan and one of the counsellors who advised king Zedekiah of Judah to kill the prophet Jeremiah
- the Haruphite, one of David's mighty warriors who joined him at Ziklag
- son of Maachah and prince of the tribe of Simeon in the time of David
- son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah and brother to his successor Jehoram
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה Shᵉphaṭyâh H8203 “Shephatiah” Noun, Proper
- שְׁלֹ֥שׁ shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שִׁבְעִ֥ים shibʻîym H7657 “seventy” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁנָֽיִם shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה Shephatiah H8203 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה Shephatiah H8203 occurs in 13 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
2Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 8:8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
- Nehemiah 7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 σαφατια τριακόσιοι ἑβδομήκοντα δύο
The children of Saphatia, three hundred and seventy-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 →
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shᵉphaṭyâh (“Shephatiah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Shephatiah” (Shᵉphaṭyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 2 Samuel 3:4 shares the word «Shephatiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
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.