בְּנֵ֣י אָרַ֔ח שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה וְשִׁבְעִֽים
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:5 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 Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Arah were 775.
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 Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Arah, 775;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Arah, 775;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Arah, seuen hundreth, and seuentie and fiue:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Arah, seven hundred five and seventy.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of Arah: 775.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Arah were 775.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Arah, 775;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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אָרַ֔ח
ʼÂrach
H733
“Arah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 7:39
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Arah = "traveller"
- a man of Asher
- the prominent head of a family of returning exiles
- another returned exile
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אָרַ֔ח ʼÂrach H733 “Arah” Noun, Proper
- שְׁבַ֥ע shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים shibʻîym H7657 “and · seventy” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, 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 אָרַ֔ח Arah H733 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אָרַ֔ח Arah H733 occurs in 4 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 2:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
- Nehemiah 6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
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 ηρα ἑπτακόσιοι ἑβδομήκοντα πέντε
The children of Ares, seven hundred and seventy-five.
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 ʼÂrach (“Arah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼÂrach carries the sense “Arah.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 1 Chronicles 7:39, which shares the word «Arah», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
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.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 2:5 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 →
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
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
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.