מִבְּנֵ֣י יוֹאָ֔ב עֹבַדְיָ֖ה בֶּן יְחִיאֵ֑ל וְעִמּ֕וֹ מָאתַ֛יִם וּשְׁמֹנָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר הַזְּכָרִֽים
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 8:9
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 8:9 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 Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen 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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World English Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Joab: Obadiah, the son of Jehiel, and with him were 218 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 Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
from the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
from the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the sonnes of Ioab, Obadiah the sonne of Iehiel, and with him two hundreth and eighteene males.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen men.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
From the sons of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen who are males.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen who are males.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel and with him were listed 218 males.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Joab: Obadiah, the son of Jehiel, and with him were 218 males.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Joab, Obadiah, son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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יְחִיאֵ֑ל
Yᵉchîyʼêl
H3171
“Jehiel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 15:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Jehiel = "God lives"
- a Levite and one of the chief musicians in the time of David
- a Gershonite Levite who had charge of the treasures in the time of David
- son of Hachmoni and an officer of David and tutor of David's sons
- a son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah put to death by his brother Jehoram
- Hemanite who took part in the restoration of king Hezekiah
- a Levite and overseer in the time of Hezekiah
- a ruler of the temple during the reforms of Josiah
- father of Obadiah of the sons of Joab in the time of Ezra
- father of Shechaniah of the sons of Elam in the time of Ezra
- a son of Elam who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- a priest of the sons of Harim who also had to put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- מִבְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “from · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יוֹאָ֔ב Yôwʼâb H3097 “Joab” Noun, Proper
- עֹבַדְיָ֖ה ʻÔbadyâh H5662 “Obadiah” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְחִיאֵ֑ל Yᵉchîyʼêl H3171 “Jehiel” Noun, Proper
- וְעִמּ֕וֹ ʻim H5973 “and · with · him” Conjunction + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מָאתַ֛יִם mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Dual, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנָ֥ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עָשָׂ֖ר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” 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 →
- 10
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is יְחִיאֵ֑ל Jehiel H3171 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יְחִיאֵ֑ל Jehiel H3171 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 3 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מִבְּנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 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 10 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
2Topical passages linked to Ezra 8:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
- Nehemiah 7:11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.
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 ιωαβ αβαδια υἱός ιιηλ καί μετά αὐτός διακόσιοι δέκα ὀκτώ ὁ ἀρσενικός
And of the sons of Joab; Abadia the son of Jeiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen 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 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉchîyʼêl (“Jehiel”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Yᵉchîyʼêl carries the sense “Jehiel.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 1 Chronicles 15:18, which shares the word «Jehiel», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 8:9 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.