Nehemiah 10:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

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פַּשְׁח֥וּר

Pashchûwr

H6583

“Pashur”

Noun, Proper

Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 9:12

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably from H6582

TWOT: None

Pashur = "freedom" - a priest, son of Malchiah and one of the chief princes in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah - a priest, son of Immer, chief governor of the temple, and the one who struck and then put the prophet Jeremiah into the stocks in the reign of king Jehoiakim of Judah - son of Malchijah, father of Zechariah, and ancestor of Adaiah who did the work of the temple in the time of Nehemiah. Probably same as 1 - father of Gedaliah; probably the same as 1 - head of a family of returned exiles

About this verse

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3: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פַּשְׁח֥וּר Pashur H6583 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פַּשְׁח֥וּר Pashur H6583 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 10:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
Nehemiah 8:4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.
Nehemiah 11:12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
Nehemiah 12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
Nehemiah 12:13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

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Hebrew Nehemiah 10:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

פַּשְׁח֥וּר אֲמַרְיָ֖ה מַלְכִּיָּֽה

Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

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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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Commentary

Notes on Nehemiah 10:3 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3–8, Priests: 9–13, Levites: 14–28, Chiefs of the people

The 21 names here given are those of the priestly houses. The list of Neh_12:1-3 agrees with it in 16 names. The number 21 is peculiar; in chap. 12 the number is larger by one. In Ezra 2, Nehemiah 7, only four priestly houses are recorded, viz. Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur and Harim, as having returned with Zerubbabel. Pashur is mentioned in Neh_10:3; Harim in Neh_10:5. The other priestly families had either developed themselves out of these first four, or had arrived from time to time from Babylon.

That 21 and not 24 are recorded, is noteworthy. Various conjectures have been hazarded, e.g. that names have dropped out from the text, or that three of the priestly tribes refused to sign the document, or that the complete list of priestly houses has not yet been reorganised.

Seraiah’s name is given first. To his family belonged both Eliashib the high-priest and Ezra the scribe. The absence of their names does not therefore deserve the importance which some commentators have given to it. A single signature for the whole house may have been affixed by Eliashib or by Ezra or by some other distinguished person of the same house. We have no reason to look for the names of individual priests among the names of the priestly houses.

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Pashchûwr (“Pashur”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Pashur” (Pashchûwr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does 1 Chronicles 9:12, which shares the word «Pashur», read alongside 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

These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.