Nehemiah 11:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 11:27 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.
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and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and the towns of it,
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and the towns of it,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and in Hazar-Shual; and in Beersheba and its daughters;

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and the towns of it,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    in Hazar-shual; in Beersheba and its villages;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    in Hazar-shual; in Beersheba and its villages;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And in Hazer-shual, and in Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And at Hasersual, and at Bersabee, and in the villages thereof,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and in Hazar-Shaul, and in Beer-Sheba and its small towns,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and in Hazar-Shaul, and in Beer-Sheba and its small towns,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Hazar Shual, and Beersheba and its villages.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and in Hazar-Shual; and in Beersheba and its daughters;
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and in Hazar-Shual, and in Beer-sheba and its dependent villages,
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and in its villages,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba with its settlements,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof;

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3
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּבַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-shual H2705 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּבַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-shual H2705 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 nouns
  • 1 adjective

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וּבַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-shual H2705 ×2
  • וּבִבְאֵ֥ר Beer-sheba H884 ×2

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 11:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 21:31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
  • Genesis 26:33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
  • Joshua 15:28 and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,
  • Joshua 19:3 and Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem,
  • Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 11:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבַחֲצַ֥ר שׁוּעָ֛ל וּבִבְאֵ֥ר שֶׁ֖בַע וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ

and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and the towns of it,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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 11:27 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

27. Hazar-shual] ‘Fox-town.’ Cf. Jos_15:28.

Beer-sheba] The well-known southern limit of Palestine.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

Hazar-shual and Beer-sheba are united in Jos_15:28, and were no doubt near together. Hazar-shual means "the village of foxes."

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

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 5 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chătsar Shûwʻâl (“Hazar-shual”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Chătsar Shûwʻâl carries the sense “Hazar-shual.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Joshua 15:28 shares the word «Hazar-shual» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “Hazar-shual” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

  • These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
  • “Hazar-shual” occurs 2× in this single verse.
  • 3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.

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