הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים בְּנֵ֣י אָסָ֔ף מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה
The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:41
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:41 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 singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
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King James Version Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The singers: the sons of Asaph were 128.
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 singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.
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King James Version Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The Singers: the sonnes of Asaph, an hundreth and eight and twentie.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The singing men: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
The singers: sons of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The singers: sons of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The temple singers, descendants of Asaph: 128.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The singers: the sons of Asaph were 128.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the singers of the sons of Asaph, 128;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.
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אָסָ֔ף
ʼÂçâph
H623
“Asaph”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 46× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 18:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Asaph = "gatherer"
- the father of Hezekiah's secretary
- a son of Berechiah, chief Levite musician under David
- a Persian officer over the royal forest
- הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים shîyr H7891 “the · singing” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Polel, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אָסָ֔ף ʼÂçâph H623 “Asaph” Noun, Proper
- מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנָֽה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אָסָ֔ף Asaph H623 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 2 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Verb forms
- הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים Polel · Participle Active
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 7 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
5Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:41 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 6:39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 1 Chronicles 25:1–2 Moreover, David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was:
- Nehemiah 7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
- Nehemiah 11:17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
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.
ὁ ᾄδω υἱός ασαφ ἑκατόν εἴκοσι ὀκτώ
The sons of Asaph, singers, one hundred and twenty-eight.
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
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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÂçâph (“Asaph”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Asaph” (ʼÂçâph) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does 2 Kings 18:18, which shares the word «Asaph», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים» is a Polel Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 2:41 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 →
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.