וְאֶת חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה וְאִתּ֥וֹ יְשַֽׁעְיָ֖ה מִבְּנֵ֣י מְרָרִ֑י אֶחָ֥יו וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם עֶשְׂרִֽים
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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Ezra 8:19
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 8:19 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
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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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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World English Bible Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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King James Version Public Domain
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hashabiah, and with him, Jeshaiah, from the sons of Merari, whose brothers and their sons were 20;
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
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
also Hashabiah, together with Jeshaiah, from the descendants of Merari, and his brothers and their sons, 20 men.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
also Hashabiah, together with Jeshaiah, from the descendants of Merari, and his brothers and their sons, 20 men.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Also Hashabiah, and with him Ieshaiah of the sonnes of Merari, with his brethren, and their sonnes twentie.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his brethren, and his sons twenty.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah, of the sons of Merari, his brethren, and their sons, twenty;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah, of the sons of Merari, his brothers, and their sons, twenty;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
With him came Hashabiah. There also were Jeshaiah, one of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty men in all.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hashabiah, and with him, Jeshaiah, from the sons of Merari, whose brothers and their sons were 20;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Isaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hashabiah, along with Jeshaiah, from the sons of Merari, and his brothers and their sons, a total of twenty men.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה
Chăshabyâh
H2811
“Hashabiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:45
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hashabiah = "Jehovah has considered"
- a Merarite Levite
- the 4th of the 6 sons of Jeduthun who had charge of the 12th course
- one of the descendants of Hebron the son of Kohath
- the son of Kemuel, who was prince of the tribe of Levi in the time of David
- a Levite, one of the chiefs of his tribe who officiated for Josiah at his great passover feast
- a Merarite Levite, one of the chief priests who accompanied Ezra from Babylon; ruler of half the circuit of Keilah and one who repaired a portion of the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. He sealed the covenant of reformation after the return from captivity
- a Levite, son of Bunni in the time of Nehemiah
- a Levite, son of Mattaniah in the time of Nehemiah
- a priest of the family of Hilkiah in the days of Joiakim, son of Jeshua
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה Chăshabyâh H2811 “Hashabiah” Noun, Proper
- וְאִתּ֥וֹ ʼêth H854 “and · with · him” Conjunction + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- יְשַֽׁעְיָ֖ה Yᵉshaʻyâh H3470 “Isaiah” Noun, Proper
- מִבְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “from · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מְרָרִ֑י Mᵉrârîy H4847 “Merari” Noun, Proper
- אֶחָ֥יו ʼâch H251 “brothers · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם bên H1121 “and · sons · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- עֶשְׂרִֽים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, 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
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה Hashabiah H2811 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה Hashabiah H2811 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מִבְּנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 15 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
5Topical passages linked to Ezra 8:19 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 6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
- Nehemiah 3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for his district.
- Nehemiah 10:11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
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 ὁ ασεβια καί ὁ ωσαιαν ἀπό υἱός μεραρι ἀδελφός αὐτός καί υἱός αὐτός εἴκοσι
And Asebia, and Isaia of the sons of Merari, his brethren and his sons, twenty.
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
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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chăshabyâh (“Hashabiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hashabiah” (Chăshabyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 Chronicles 6:45 shares the word «Hashabiah» 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. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 8:19 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.
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.