כָּל בְּנֵי פֶ֕רֶץ הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֛וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה אַנְשֵׁי חָֽיִל
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Nehemiah 11:6
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 11:6 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
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
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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
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
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King James Version Public Domain
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
All the sons of Perez, the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, were 468 men of strength.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.
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King James Version Public Domain
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
All the sonnes of Perez that dwelt at Ierusalem, were foure hundreth, three score and eight valiant men.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
all the sons of Perez who are dwelling in Jerusalem `are' four hundred sixty and eight, men of valour.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
all the sons of Perez who are dwelling in Jerusalem [are] four hundred sixty-eight, men of valor.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468. They were outstanding men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
All the sons of Perez, the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, were 468 men of strength.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
All the children of Pherez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred sixty and eight valiant men.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The total of the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem was 468 men of ability.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
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פֶ֕רֶץ
Perets
H6557
“Perez”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 38:29
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Perez or Pharez = "breach"
- twin son with Zarah of Judah by Tamar and ancestor of two families of Judah, the Hezronites and Hamulites; from the Hezronites came the royal line of David and Christ
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- פֶ֕רֶץ Perets H6557 “Perez” Noun, Proper
- הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים yâshab H3427 “the · dwelling” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם Yᵉrûwshâlaim H3389 “in/at · Jerusalem” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- אַרְבַּ֥ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֛וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שִׁשִּׁ֥ים shishshîym H8346 “sixty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אַנְשֵׁי ʼîysh H376 “men of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חָֽיִל chayil H2428 “strength” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 11
- words
- 11
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is פֶ֕רֶץ Perez H6557 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
פֶ֕רֶץ Perez H6557 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 6 nouns
- 4 adjectives
Verb forms
- הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active
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
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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Perets (“Perez”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Perez” (Perets) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 38:29, which shares the word «Perez», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
- 11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 11:6 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 →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.