בְּנֵ֧י שְׁפַטְיָ֣ה בְנֵֽי חַטִּ֗יל בְּנֵ֛י פֹּכֶ֥רֶת הַצְּבָיִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י אָמִֽי
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:57
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:57 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 Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.
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 Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants of Ami.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants of Ami.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the sonnes of Ami.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of Phochereth, which were of Asebaim, the children of Ami,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Shephatiah, sons of Hattil, sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, sons of Ami.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Shephatiah, sons of Hattil, sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, sons of Ami.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth Hazzebaim, and Ami.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-hazzebaim, and Ami.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
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אָמִֽי
ʼÂmîy
H532
“Ami”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ami = "bond-servant"
- a descendant of Amon, Solomon's servant
- בְּנֵ֧י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שְׁפַטְיָ֣ה Shᵉphaṭyâh H8203 “Shephatiah” Noun, Proper
- בְנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חַטִּ֗יל Chaṭṭîyl H2411 “Hattil” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֛י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- פֹּכֶ֥רֶת Pôkereth Tsᵉbâyîym H6380 “Pochereth of Zebaim” Noun, Proper
- הַצְּבָיִ֖ים Pôkereth Tsᵉbâyîym H6380 “Pochereth of Zebaim” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אָמִֽי ʼÂmîy H532 “Ami” 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 →
- 9
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- אָמִֽי Ami H532
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
חַטִּ֗יל Hattil H2411 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 9 nouns
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 8 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 2:57 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 7:59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.
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 σαφατια υἱός ατιλ υἱός φαχεραθ οἱός ημι
the children of Saphatia, the children of Atil, the children of Phacherath, the children of Aseboim, the children of Emei.
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 →
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 9 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÂmîy (“Ami”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼÂmîy carries the sense “Ami.” How does it shape the verse?
- This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
- 3 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Nehemiah 7:59 shares the word «Hattil» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 2:57 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 →
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.
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).