Ezra 2:50

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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אַסְנָ֥ה

ʼAçnâh

H619

“Asnah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: None

Asnah = "I shall be hated: she has stored up" - a temple-slave who returned from exile

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 →

8: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

אַסְנָ֥ה Asnah H619

First appearance in Scripture

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

אַסְנָ֥ה Asnah H619
נפיסים Nephusim H5304

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נפיסים Nephusim H5304 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Nehemiah 7:52

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּנֵי son H1121 ×3
מעינים Mehunim H4586 ×2
נפיסים Nephusim H5304 ×2

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 8 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

Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:50 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,

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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.

Hebrew Ezra 2:50 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵי אַסְנָ֥ה בְנֵי מעינים מְעוּנִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י נפיסים נְפוּסִֽים

the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:50 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ασενα υἱός μαωνιμ υἱός ναφισων

the children of Asena, the children of Mounim, the children of Nephusim,

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.

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 2:50 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

50. the children of Mehunim] R.V. Meunim. These have been identified with the Maonites who oppressed the children of Israel in the days of the Judges (Jdg_10:12). It is very possible that the Meunim were leagued with the Moabites and Ammonites against Jehoshaphat (2Ch_20:1). Uzziah obtained the mastery over the Meunim (2Ch_26:7). Very possibly it is the descendants of the Meunim whom Uzziah made prisoners, to whom the verse refers.

If this be so, the Meunim were the people of Maon, Bedouins like the Midianites, having their headquarters south of the Dead Sea, not far from Petra.

the children of Nephusim] R.V. Nephisim. Both readings are found. The LXX. has Νεφουσὶμ. ‘Nephisim’ seems the most probable, since we naturally incline to identify the name with the clan of Naphish, the Israelite or Arab mentioned in Gen_25:15; 1Ch_1:31. From another passage, 1Ch_5:18-22, we learn that they with others belonged to the tribe of Hagrites (A.V. Hagarites) and experienced defeat, followed by wholesale massacre and captivity, at the hands of the Transjordanic tribes Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

In Neh_7:52 they are called ‘Nephushesim’.

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.

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAçnâh (“Asnah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Asnah” (ʼAçnâh) shape what this verse is saying?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does Nehemiah 7:52, which shares the word «Nephusim», 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 in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 3× in this single verse.