וּמִבְּנֵ֣י בֵבַ֔י זְכַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן בֵּבָ֑י וְעִמּ֕וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה הַזְּכָרִֽים
Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 8:11
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 8:11 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
Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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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.
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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
Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the sons of Bebai: Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him were 28 males.
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
Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
from the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him 28 men;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
from the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him 28 men;
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King James Version Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight males.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight males.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And of the sonnes of Bebai, Zechariah the sonne of Bebai, and with him eight and twentie males.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him eight and twenty men.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And from the sons of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight who are males.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the sons of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight who are males.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai and with him were listed twenty-eight males.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the sons of Bebai: Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him were 28 males.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And of the children of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, son of Bebai, and with him 28 men.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight males.
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בֵבַ֔י
Bêbay
H893
“Bebai”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 2:11
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Bebai = "my cavities"
- a leader of the returning exiles
- וּמִבְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “and · from · sons of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בֵבַ֔י Bêbay H893 “Bebai” Noun, Proper
- זְכַרְיָ֖ה Zᵉkaryâh H2148 “Zechariah” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בֵּבָ֑י Bêbay H893 “Bebai” Noun, Proper
- וְעִמּ֕וֹ ʻim H5973 “and · with · him” Conjunction + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הַזְּכָרִֽים zâkâr H2145 “the · males” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
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
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בֵבַ֔י Bebai H893 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בֵבַ֔י Bebai H893 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 2 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 14 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
3Topical passages linked to Ezra 8:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 10:28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
- Ezra 2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
- Nehemiah 7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
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.
καί ἀπό υἱός βαβι ζαχαρια υἱός βαβι καί μετά αὐτός ἑβδομήκοντα ὀκτώ ὁ ἀρσενικός
And of the sons of Babi; Zacharias the son of Babi, and with him twenty-eight males.
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 →
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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bêbay (“Bebai”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Bebai” (Bêbay) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Ezra 2:11 shares the word «Bebai» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 2× 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?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 8:11 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 →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.