Ezra 2:42

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:42 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.
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The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai were 139 in all.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 139 in all.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 139 in all.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The sonnes of the porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai: all were an hundreth and nine and thirtie.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Sons of the gatekeepers; sons of Shallum, sons of Ater, sons of Talmon, sons of Akkub, sons of Hatita, sons of Shobai, the whole `are' a hundred thirty and nine.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Sons of the gatekeepers: sons of Shallum, sons of Ater, sons of Talmon, sons of Akkub, sons of Hatita, sons of Shobai, the whole [are] one hundred thirty-nine.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of the gatekeepers: descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai: 139 total.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai were 139 in all.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The children of the doorkeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred and thirty-nine.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The children of the gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the gatekeepers of the families of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai, 139.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The children of the door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-nine.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine.

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חֲטִיטָ֖א
Chăṭîyṭâʼ
H2410
“Hatita”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to dig out

TWOT: None

Hatita = "exploring" - head of a family of Levitical porters or gate-keepers who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
  1. בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֗ים shôwʻêr H7778 “the · gatekeepers” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  3. בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. שַׁלּ֤וּם Shallûwm H7967 “Shallum” Noun, Proper
  5. בְּנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  6. אָטֵר֙ ʼÂṭêr H333 “Ater” Noun, Proper
  7. בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  8. טַלְמ֣וֹן Ṭalmôwn H2929 “Talmon” Noun, Proper
  9. בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  10. עַקּ֔וּב ʻAqqûwb H6126 “Akkub” Noun, Proper
  11. בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  12. בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  13. שֹׁבָ֑י Shôbay H7630 “Shobai” Noun, Proper
  14. הַכֹּ֕ל kôl H3605 “the · all” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  15. מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  16. שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “thirty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  17. וְתִשְׁעָֽה têshaʻ H8672 “and · nine” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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18
words
12
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֲטִיטָ֖א Hatita H2410 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • חֲטִיטָ֖א Hatita H2410
  • שֹׁבָ֑י Shobai H7630

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֲטִיטָ֖א Hatita H2410 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 15 nouns
  • 3 adjectives

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בְּנֵ֣י son H1121 ×7

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 34 words from the Hebrew and 35 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 18 Hebrew tokens and 20 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

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Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:42 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 9:17 The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
  • 1 Chronicles 26:1–19 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
  • Nehemiah 7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 2:42 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֗ים בְּנֵי שַׁלּ֤וּם בְּנֵֽי אָטֵר֙ בְּנֵי טַלְמ֣וֹן בְּנֵי עַקּ֔וּב בְּנֵ֥י חֲטִיטָ֖א בְּנֵ֣י שֹׁבָ֑י הַכֹּ֕ל מֵאָ֖ה שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וְתִשְׁעָֽה

The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:42 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ὁ πυλωρός υἱός σαλουμ υἱός ατηρ υἱός τελμων υἱός ακουβ υἱός ατιτα υἱός σαβαου ὁ πᾶς ἑκατόν τριάκοντα ἐννέα

The children of the porters, the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Acub, the children of Atita, the children of Sobai, in all one hundred and thirty-nine.

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 2:42 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(42) The children of the porters.—The porters, or gatekeepers, number six families, three of which appear in the old Jerusalem (1Ch_9:17).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

42. the porters] so also R.V.; although it is noteworthy that having substituted ‘door-keepers’ for ‘porters’ (A.V.) in 1Ch_26:1, the R.V. has not for the sake of consistency made a similar alteration here, the word in Hebrew being the same in both instances. The door-keepers mentioned here and in 1Ch_26:1-19 are Levites: possibly the name ‘porters’ was preserved to distinguish the Levitical attendants from the priestly door-keepers (or more literally ‘keepers of the threshold’) mentioned in 2Ki_25:18, Jer_35:4. Compare Psa_84:10 ‘I had rather be a doorkeeper in (marg.: ‘stand at the threshold of’) the house of my God’.

The names are clearly the names of households or courses, since Shallum, Akkub and Talmon are mentioned in 1Ch_9:17, and Akkub and Talmon are referred to in Neh_11:19.

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

42. Porters — Doorkeepers of the temple. See on 1Ch_9:18.

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 porters. Six families of doorkeepers returned; three of which bear old names, those of Shallum, Talmon, and Akkub, (1Ch_9:17) while the other three have names that are new to us. One hundred and thirty-nine. The smallness of this and the two preceding numbers is remarkable. While the returning priests numbered 4289, the returning Levites of all classes were no more than 341 (350, Nehemiah). It would seem as if some jealousy of the priests, like that which animated Korah and his followers, (Num_16:1-10) must have grown up during the captivity. (comp. below, Ezr_8:15)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 18 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chăṭîyṭâʼ (“Hatita”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Chăṭîyṭâʼ carries the sense “Hatita.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Nehemiah 7:45 shares the word «Hatita» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. “son” occurs 7× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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