Ezra 2:6

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:6 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.
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The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab were 2, 812.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua `and' Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The sonnes of Pahath Moab, of the sonnes of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and twelue:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua, Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of Pahath-Moab, through Jeshua and Joab: 2,812.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab were 2, 812.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Yeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the sons of Pahath-moab (sons of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred and twelve.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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פַחַ֥ת
Pachath Môwʼâb
H6355
“Pahath-moab”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6354 and H4124

TWOT: None

Pahath-moab = "pit of Moab" - ancestor of one or two families of Israel who returned from exile in Babylon - a leader of the people, father of the wall rebuilder Hashub, and one who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
  1. בְּנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. מוֹאָ֛ב Pachath Môwʼâb H6355 “Pahath-moab” Noun, Proper
  3. לִבְנֵ֥י bên H1121 “to/for · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. יֵשׁ֖וּעַ Yêshûwaʻ H3442 “Jeshua” Noun, Proper
  5. יוֹאָ֑ב Yôwʼâb H3097 “Joab” Noun, Proper
  6. אַלְפַּ֕יִם ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “eight” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  9. וּשְׁנֵ֥ים shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
  10. עָשָֽׂר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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11
words
9
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פַחַ֥ת Pahath-moab H6355 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • פַחַ֥ת Pahath-moab H6355

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פַחַ֥ת Pahath-moab H6355 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 6 nouns
  • 5 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בְּנֵֽי son H1121 ×2
  • פַחַ֥ת Pahath-moab H6355 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 10 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

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Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Nehemiah 7:11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.
  • Ezra 8:4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
  • Ezra 8:9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
  • Ezra 10:14 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched.
  • Ezra 10:30 Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

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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.

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Hebrew Ezra 2:6 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵֽי פַחַ֥ת מוֹאָ֛ב לִבְנֵ֥י יֵשׁ֖וּעַ יוֹאָ֑ב אַלְפַּ֕יִם שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת וּשְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר

The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 2:6 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός φααθμωαβ ὁ υἱός ιησουε ιωαβ δισχίλιοι ὀκτακόσιοι δέκα δύο

The children of Phaath Moab, belonging to the sons of Jesue and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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 2:6 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, of the Duke of Moab.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

6. The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab] Pahath = ruler of. We must suppose that the founder of this family had exercised rule over some portion of the Moabite territory. We learn from 1Ch_4:22 that certain members of the tribe of Judah ‘had the dominion in Moab’. Probably this family belonged to the tribe of Judah. The word Pahath was commonly in use in Assyria, and is similar to the term for ‘governor’. Part of this family returned with Ezra (Ezr_8:4): certain members of it are mentioned in Ezr_10:30; Neh_3:11.

Jeshua and Joab] In the original ‘Jeshua Joab’. These were special branches of the main family.

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

Moab. This seems to be the name of a place, where the descendants of Josue and Joab might reside; (chap. viii. 4.; Calmet) or Phahath might have this title, on account of some victory, or residence in the country. His descendants, with those of Josue and Joab, where 2812, (Tirinus) or 2818, 2 Esdras vii. 11. (Calmet) --- Josue. Protestants, "Jeshua and Joab." (Haydock) --- Some translate Pahath, "the chief of" Moab, &c. (Du Hamel) --- Grotius suspects that to ver. 68 may be inserted from Nehemias.

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

Of Jeshua and Joab, or of Jeshua-joab, as the former was Palath-moab.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Pachath Môwʼâb (“Pahath-moab”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Pahath-moab” (Pachath Môwʼâb) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. The word “Pahath-moab” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Ezra 8:4 shares the word «Pahath-moab» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. “son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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