Nehemiah 10:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

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זַתּ֖וּא

Zattûwʼ

H2240

“Zattu”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Ezra 2:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: None

Zattu = "brightness of him" - a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

About this verse

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8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is זַתּ֖וּא Zattu H2240 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

זַתּ֖וּא Zattu H2240 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

פַּחַ֣ת Pahath-moab H6355 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 10:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 7:11–13 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.
Nehemiah 7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
Ezra 2:3–70 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 10:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

רָאשֵׁ֖י הָעָ֑ם פַּרְעֹשׁ֙ פַּחַ֣ת מוֹאָ֔ב עֵילָ֥ם זַתּ֖וּא בָּנִֽי

The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

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Greek LXX Structure differs

The Septuagint has no separate book of Nehemiah. Its Greek text is the second half of Esdras B (2 Esdras), chapters 11–23; Ezra is the first half (1–10).

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Nehemiah 10:14 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

Neh 10:14. The chief of the people — It would have been tedious to make all the people subscribe and seal the writing, therefore the chiefs and princes of each family signed and sealed it in the name of the rest; and they seem to have subscribed in the name of him from whom the family was derived.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, captain of Moab.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14) The chief of the people.—Some of the names are personal, some belong to families, some represent places, and some are independent. Comparing the list with Ezra 2, we find that years had added to the number of the houses.

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

14. The chief of the people] R.V. The chiefs of the people. A comparison with Ezra 2, Nehemiah 7. puts it beyond doubt that here again we have to do with the names of houses, not of individuals.

Zatthu] R.V. Zattu.

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

Pharos. Many of these are mentioned as returning from Babylon, chap. vii. 8, 11, &c.

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

The chief of the people, i.e. their elders, or representatives, acting in the stead and by the appointment of all the rest; for it had been troublesome and unnecessary for every one of the people to seal.

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

14. Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam — These and other names in this list are identical with names found in the list of those who returned from the captivity nearly a hundred years before. Ezra ii; Nehemiah 7. Thus in many houses ancestral names were perpetuated in the children. But we are not to suppose that the persons named in this list were identical with those of the same names in the older list of Ezra 2.

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

Vers. 14-27. The chief of the people. Down to Magpiash the names correspond to those of lay families which returned with Zerubbabel, (Ezr_2:3-30 Neh_7:8-33) the first eighteen being personal, and the last three names of localities. Nebai is the same as "Nebo", (Neh_7:33) and Magpiash the same as Magbish. (Ezr_2:30) From Meshullam to Baanah (vers. 20-27) the names seem to be again personal; but they are new, and therefore probably those of individuals who were not authorised to represent either clans or localities. In ver. 17, the two names Ater and Hizkijah should be united by a hyphen, since it is clear that they represent the single family, Ater of Hezekiah, mentioned in Ezra it. 16 and Neh_7:21. "Hizkijah"and "Hezekiah" are in the original identical.

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

Lesson kit

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Zattûwʼ (“Zattu”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Zattu” (Zattûwʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Ezra 2:8, which shares the word «Zattu», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Pahath-moab” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
“Pahath-moab” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.