מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל צָד֖וֹק יַדּֽוּעַ
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Nehemiah 10:21
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 10:21 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
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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World English Bible Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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King James Version Public Domain
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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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
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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King James Version Public Domain
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Iaddua,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(10-22) Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua;
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מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל
Mᵉshêyzabʼêl
H4898
“Meshezabeel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Nehemiah 3:4
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Meshezabeel = "God delivers"
- ancestor of Meshullam who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
- perhaps the same as 2 and 3
- a head of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- perhaps the same as 1 and 3
- father of Pethahiah and descendant of Zerah the son of Judah
- perhaps the same as 1 and 2
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 →
- 3
- words
- 3
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל Meshezabeel H4898 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- יַדּֽוּעַ Jaddua H3037
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל Meshezabeel H4898 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
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.
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 →
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.
Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉshêyzabʼêl (“Meshezabeel”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Meshezabeel” (Mᵉshêyzabʼêl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “Jaddua” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Nehemiah 3:4, which shares the word «Meshezabeel», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 10:21 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 →
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.