Ezra 2:58

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

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הַנְּתִינִ֔ים

Nâthîyn

H5411

“the · temple slaves”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 18× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 9:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5414

TWOT: 1443a

Nethinims - temple slaves assigned to the Levites and priests for service in the sanctuary

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
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַנְּתִינִ֔ים temple slave H5411 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַנְּתִינִ֔ים temple slave H5411 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
4 adjectives

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 9 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 2:58 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 9:2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
1 Kings 9:21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
Joshua 9:21 The princes said to them, Let them live: so they became wood cutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
Joshua 9:23 Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Joshua 9:27 That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
Ezra 7:7 There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Nehemiah 3:26 (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
Nehemiah 7:60 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 2:58 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כָּ֨ל הַנְּתִינִ֔ים וּבְנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת תִּשְׁעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם

All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

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Greek LXX Ezra 2:58 Septuagint · lemma form

πᾶς ὁ ναθινιν καί υἱός αβδησελμα τριακόσιοι ἐνενήκοντα δύο

All the Nathanim, and the sons of Abdeselma were three hundred and ninety-two.

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 2:58 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 →

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

and the children of Solomon’s slaves King Solomon had slaves, and these children were of their descendants.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nâthîyn (“temple slave”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Nâthîyn carries the sense “temple slave.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Chronicles 9:2, which shares the word «temple slave», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.