Nehemiah 11:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.

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Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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חֲזָיָ֨ה

Chăzâyâh

H2382

“Hazaiah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2372 and H3050

TWOT: None

Hazaiah = "God has seen" - an exile and descendant of Shelah of the tribe of Judah who returned in the time of Nehemiah

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 →

16: words
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

חֲזָיָ֨ה Hazaiah H2382
הַשִּׁלֹנִֽי Shiloni H8023

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

חֲזָיָ֨ה Hazaiah H2382
הַשִּׁלֹנִֽי Shiloni H8023

Shared distinctive vocabulary

כָּל Col-hozeh H3626 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Nehemiah 3:15

Grammatical profile

16 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בֶן son H1121 ×7
כָּל Col-hozeh H3626 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 11:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 38:5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
Numbers 26:20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
1 Chronicles 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
1 Chronicles 9:5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
Nehemiah 3:15 The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 11:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמַעֲשֵׂיָ֣ה בֶן בָּר֣וּךְ בֶּן כָּל חֹ֠זֶה בֶּן חֲזָיָ֨ה בֶן עֲדָיָ֧ה בֶן יוֹיָרִ֛יב בֶּן זְכַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן הַשִּׁלֹנִֽי

and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.

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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 11:5 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Neh 11:5 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.

Ver. 5. And Maaseiah the son of Baruch] {See Trapp on "Ezr 2:3"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, of a Shilonite.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(5) The son of Shiloni.—Better, the Shilonite, or descendants of Shelah, youngest son of Judah.

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

5. Maaseiah] In 1Ch_9:5, ‘And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.’

the son of Shiloni] R.V. the son of the Shilonite. The word for ‘son of (ben) has probably been inserted by copyists who mistook the patronymic ‘Shilonite’ for a proper name. The word ‘Shilonite’ has nothing to do with the town Shiloh; but is the patronymic form denoting a descendant of Shelah, son of Judah (Num_26:20). The Chronicles list mentions also the name of Jeuel, son of Zerah, Judah’s third son; but in this passage the Zerahites have disappeared. Their line may have become extinct, or been merged in one of the brother’s houses; or is it omitted here, because ‘the children of Zerah, the son of Judah’ are represented in Neh_11:24 by Pethahiah?

Col-hozeh] This name has occurred in chap. Neh_3:15.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And these are the sons of Benjamin,.... That were of that tribe, and inhabited Jerusalem, namely, that follow:

Sallu the son of Meshullam; who from him is traced up through Joed, Pedaiah, Kolaiah, Maaseiah, Ithiel, to Jesaiah.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Silonite. Of the son of Sela, 1 Paralipomenon ix. 5. (Tirinus)

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

Maaseiah is called Asaish" in 1 Chronicles, and designated simply as "the Shilonite, or descendant of Shelah, the youngest son of Judah. Zechariah, the son of Shiloni. Rather, "the Shilonite." The word ben, "son," has been intruded into the text by a copyist, who thought that "Shiloni" was a personal name.

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

Connecting Statement:

In these verses, Nehemiah continues to list the provincial officers who lived in Jerusalem.

Maaseiah ... Baruch ... Kol-Hozeh ... Hazaiah ... Adaiah ... Joiarib ... Zechariah ... Perez

These are the names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

Shilonite

This refers to a person who comes from the town of Shiloh.

All ... were 468

"All ... were four hundred and sixty-eight." Perez had 468 descendants who lived in Jerusalem. (See: Numbers)

They were outstanding men

"They were courageous men" or "They were valiant men"

translationWords

son

Zechariah (OT)

Jerusalem

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 16 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chăzâyâh (“Hazaiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Hazaiah” (Chăzâyâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Nehemiah 3:15 shares the word «Col-hozeh» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 7× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 7× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 16 words in this verse.