וּבְנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן מִגָּ֑בַע מִכְמָ֣שׂ וְעַיָּ֔ה וּבֵֽית אֵ֖ל וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ
The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it,
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Nehemiah 11:31
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 11:31 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
The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it,
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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
The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the sons of Benjamin from Geba, at Mikmash, and Aija, and Bethel and its daughters,
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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
The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Benjamin also `dwelt' from Geba `onward', at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of Beniamin from Geba, in Michmash, and Aiia, and Beth-el, and in the villages thereof,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai, and at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And sons of Benjamin `are' at Geba, Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-El, and its small towns,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And sons of Benjamin [are] at Geba, Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-El, and its small towns,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Mikmash and Aija, at Bethel and its villages,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the sons of Benjamin from Geba, at Mikmash, and Aija, and Bethel and its daughters,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the children of Benjamin from Geba [dwelt] in Michmash and Aija and Bethel, and their dependent villages,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The people of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel and its settlements,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the children of Benjamin from Geba onward, at Michmas and Aijah, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;
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מִכְמָ֣שׂ
Mikmâç
H4363
“Michmas”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Samuel 13:2
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Michmas or Michmash = "hidden"
- a city in Benjamin lying near Ramah and approximately 10 miles
- וּבְנֵ֥י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בִנְיָמִ֖ן Binyâmîyn H1144 “Benjamin” Noun, Proper
- מִגָּ֑בַע Gebaʻ H1387 “from · Geba” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- מִכְמָ֣שׂ Mikmâç H4363 “Michmas” Noun, Proper
- וְעַיָּ֔ה ʻAy H5857 “and · Ai” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וּבֵֽית Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 “and · Bethel” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- אֵ֖ל Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 “Bethel” Noun, Proper
- וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ bath H1323 “and · daughters · her” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִכְמָ֣שׂ Michmas H4363 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִכְמָ֣שׂ Michmas H4363 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 8 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וּבֵֽית Bethel H1008 ×2
Cross-references
9Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 11:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 12:8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 28:19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Joshua 8:9 Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
- Joshua 18:13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
- Joshua 18:24 and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
- 1 Samuel 13:11 Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
- Nehemiah 7:30–32 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Isaiah 10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays up his baggage;
- 1 Samuel 13:23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
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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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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 Mikmâç (“Michmas”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Michmas” (Mikmâç) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does 1 Samuel 13:2, which shares the word «Michmas», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “Bethel” (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 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
- “Bethel” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 11:31 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.