Ezra 7:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 7:16 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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and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    with all the silver and the gold that you find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests who freely give for the house of God, which is in Jerusalem:

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
    and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And all the siluer and gold that thou canst finde in all the prouince of Babel, with the free offring of the people, and that which the Priestes offer willingly to the house of their God which is in Ierusalem,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that the priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that thou findest in all the province of Babylon, with the free-will offerings of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly, for the house of their God that `is' in Jerusalem,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and all the silver and gold that you find in all the province of Babylon, with the free-will offerings of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly, for the house of their God that [is] in Jerusalem,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Freely give all the silver and gold that all of Babylon has given along with what is freely offered by the people and the priests for the house of God in Jerusalem.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    with all the silver and the gold that you find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests who freely give for the house of God, which is in Jerusalem:
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, besides the voluntary offering of the people, and of the priests, who offer willingly for the house of their God which is at Jerusalem.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the free-will-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    together with all the silver and gold you may receive from the province of Babylon, as well as the voluntary donations of the people and priests to the Temple of their God in Jerusalem.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    As well as all the silver and gold which you get from the land of Babylon, together with the offering of the people and of the priests, freely given for the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

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הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת
nᵉdab
H5069
“freewill offering of”
Adjective, N, Common
Part of Speech
Adjective
Gender
Common
Full BDB Definition

Origin: corresponding to H5068

TWOT: 2848

to volunteer, offer freely - (Ithpael) - to volunteer - to give freely, offer freely
  1. וְכֹל֙ kôl H3606 “and · all of” Adjective, C + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. כְּסַ֣ף kᵉçaph H3702 “silver” Adjective, N, Common
  3. וּדְהַ֔ב dᵉhab H1722 “and · gold” Adjective, C + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. דִּ֣י dîy H1768 “which” Adjective, T
  5. תְהַשְׁכַּ֔ח shᵉkach H7912 “to find” Adjective, V
  6. בְּכֹ֖ל kôl H3606 “in/at · all of” Adjective, R + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. מְדִינַ֣ת mᵉdîynâh H4083 “district of” Adjective, N, Common
  8. בָּבֶ֑ל Babel H895 “Babylon” Adjective, N
  9. עִם֩ ʻim H5974 “with” Adjective, R
  10. עַמָּ֤א ʻam H5972 “people · the” Adjective, N, Common + Particle, Definite Article
  11. וְכָֽהֲנַיָּא֙ kâhên H3549 “and · priests · the” Adjective, C + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Determined + Particle, Definite Article
  12. מִֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ין nᵉdab H5069 “volunteering” Adjective, V
  13. לְבֵ֥ית bayith H1005 “to/for · house of” Adjective, R + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  14. אֱלָהֲהֹ֖ם ʼĕlâhh H426 “God · their” Adjective, N, Common + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  15. דִּ֥י dîy H1768 “which” Adjective, T
  16. בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם Yᵉrûwshâlêm H3390 “in/at · Jerusalem” Adjective, R + Noun, Proper

About this verse

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17
words
14
distinct lemmas
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section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת to volunteer H5069 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת to volunteer H5069 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 5 nouns
  • 10 adjectives
  • 2 particles

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וְכֹל֙ all H3606 ×2
  • הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת to volunteer H5069 ×2
  • דִּ֣י which H1768 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 38 words from the Hebrew and 39 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 17 Hebrew tokens and 27 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 7:16 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 29:6 Then the princes of the fathers' [houses], and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly;
  • 1 Chronicles 29:9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
  • Ezra 1:4 Whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
  • Ezra 1:6 All those who were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
  • 1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
  • Ezra 8:25–28 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:
  • 2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
  • 2 Corinthians 9:7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 7:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְכֹל֙ כְּסַ֣ף וּדְהַ֔ב דִּ֣י תְהַשְׁכַּ֔ח בְּכֹ֖ל מְדִינַ֣ת בָּבֶ֑ל עִם֩ הִתְנַדָּב֨וּת עַמָּ֤א וְכָֽהֲנַיָּא֙ מִֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ין לְבֵ֥ית אֱלָהֲהֹ֖ם דִּ֥י בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם

and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 7:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πᾶς ἀργύριον καί χρυσίον ὅς τις ἐάν εὑρίσκω ἐν πᾶς χώρα βαβυλών μετά ἑκουσιασμός ὁ λαός καί ἱερεύς ὁ ἑκουσιάζομαι εἰς οἶκος θεός ὁ ἐν ἰερουσαλήμ

And all the silver and gold, whatever you shall find in all the land of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and the priests that offer freely for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

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 7:16 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Ezr 7:16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:

Ver. 16. And all the silver and gold that thou canst find] And gold thirsty Babylon was not without great store of both, could the owners but find in their hearts to part with it to so pious a use: some did, and the rather because the king and his council began to them.

With the freewill offering of the people] God’s select people, of whom Moses singeth, "Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people!" Deu 33:29.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

7:16 Like Cyrus (1:4, 6), Artaxerxes allowed Jews in Babylon to send freewill offerings to Jerusalem. A sizeable sum was collected from the king and his council as well as from Jewish contributors (8:25-27).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 16. And all the silver and gold] The king and his counsellors had already made a present to the house of the God of Israel; and Ezra is now empowered to receive any contribution which any of the inhabitants of the province of Babylon may think proper to give.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(16) Which is in Jerusalem.—The repetition of this and similar phrases is after the manner of the literature of this period; but here, as in some other places, it implies deep reverence.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

16. (ii) The gifts of the king’s subjects in Babylon, (iii) freewill offerings of Jewish priests and people.

that thou canst find] R.V. that thou shalt find. Permission is granted to Ezra to ask for contributions from the people of the province of Babylon. Many would be ready to assist the Jews who had lived among them for a hundred and thirty years.

province of Babylon] Cf. Dan_2:48-49; Dan_3:1, &c. On ‘the province of the Medes’ see Ezr_6:2, ‘the province of Judah’ Ezr_5:8.

with the freewill offering] i.e. along with, over and above, the voluntary contributions of their Jewish countrymen.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren,.... The priests, that he should think fit to take in to his assistance in this work:

to do with the rest of the silver and gold; which should be left after the sacrifices were offered up:

that do after the will of your God; as they should be directed by him, or was prescribed by him in the law.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Babylon, which the Chaldeans may freely give. (Menochius)

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

That thou canst find, i.e. procure, as that word is used, Gen 6:8; 26:12; Psa 84:3; 119:162; Pro 1:13; 2:5; 3:13. Whatsoever thou canst get of my subjects by way of free gift.

The free-will-offering of the people, to wit, of Israel.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

16. That thou canst find in all… Babylon — That is, all that can be found in hands ready to contribute for the temple at Jerusalem — all that Ezra could collect in any part of Babylon.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

All the silver and gold that thou canst find. Rather, "that thou canst obtain" all that thou canst get my other subjects to give thee." Compare the proclamation of Cyrus. (Ezr_1:4, Ezr_1:6)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Find - Procure, as that word is used, Gen. vi, 8; xxvi, 12 Psalm 8iv, 3. Whatsoever thou canst get of my subjects by way of free gift. The people - Of Israel.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And all the silver and gold and all the silver and gold that you will find in the province of Babylon, together with the donations of the people and the priests that they will donate to the House of the Holy One, blessed be He, which is in Jerusalem; you shall take everything to Jerusalem.

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.

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 17 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nᵉdab (“to volunteer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word nᵉdab carries the sense “to volunteer.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Ezra 7:13 shares the word «to volunteer» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “all” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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