בְּנֵי עֻזָּ֥א בְנֵי פָסֵ֖חַ בְּנֵ֥י בֵסָֽי
the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:49
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:49 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 Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai,
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 Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah, the sonnes of Besai,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Asa, the children of Phasea, the children of Besee,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Uzza, sons of Paseah, sons of Besai,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Uzza, sons of Paseah, sons of Besai,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Uzza, Paseah, Besai,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah, the children of Besai,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Uzza, Paseah, Besai,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai;
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בֵסָֽי
Bᵉçay
H1153
“Besai”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Besai = "my treading"
- a temple slave (or group of slaves) who returned with Zerubbabel
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- עֻזָּ֥א ʻUzzâʼ H5798 “Uzza” Noun, Proper
- בְנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- פָסֵ֖חַ Pâçêach H6454 “Paseah” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בֵסָֽי Bᵉçay H1153 “Besai” Noun, Proper
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
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בֵסָֽי Besai H1153 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- בֵסָֽי Besai H1153
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בֵסָֽי Besai H1153 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנֵי son H1121 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 6 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
1Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:49 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 7:51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.
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 ουσα υἱός φαση υἱός βασι
the children of Azo, the children of Phase, the children of Basi,
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 (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bᵉçay (“Besai”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Besai” (Bᵉçay) shape what this verse is saying?
- This is the first place “Besai” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Nehemiah 7:52, which shares the word «Besai», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.