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Nehemiah 11:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 11:8 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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Nehemiah 11:8 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/nehemiah/11/8.

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After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
  • 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and after him, Gabbai, Sallai, 928.

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
    After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and his followers Gabbai and Sallai—928 men.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and his followers Gabbai and Sallai—928 men.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And after him Gabai, Sallai, nine hundreth and twentie and eight.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    and those following him, Gabbai and Sallai, 928 men.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and after him, Gabbai, Sallai, 928.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and after him, Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight:
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    After him Gabbai and Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And after him, Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and after him Gabbai and Sallai, a total of 928.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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7
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7
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

  • גַּבַּ֣י Gabbai H1373

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • גַּבַּ֣י Gabbai H1373

Shared distinctive vocabulary

סַלָּ֑י Sallu H5543 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
  • 1 preposition
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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.

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Hebrew Nehemiah 11:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַחֲרָ֖יו גַּבַּ֣י סַלָּ֑י תְּשַׁ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה

After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.

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 11:8 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

Neh 11:8-9. Nine hundred twenty and eight — So there were more of Benjamin than of Judah, because the city did chiefly, and most properly, belong to that tribe, as hath been observed before. Joel was their overseer — The captain of their thousand.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two,.... That offered the sacrifices, burnt incense, set on the shewbread, lighted the lamps, &c.

and Adaiah the son of Jeroham; see Ch1 9:12 whose genealogy is traced here through Pelaliah, Amzi, Zechariah, Pashur, to Malchiah.

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

So here were more of Benjamin than of Judah, because the city did chiefly and most properly belong to that tribe, as hath been noted before.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Neither Gabbai nor Sallai is mentioned in Chronicles, where the Benjamite chiefs inferior to Shallu are Ibneiah, Elah, and Meshullam. (1Ch_9:8) Nine hundred and twenty-eight. Nine hundred and fifty-six, according to Chronicles. (1Ch_9:9) Probably in one place or the other the figures have suffered corruption.

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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gabbay (“Gabbai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Gabbai” (Gabbay) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
  3. This is the first place “Gabbai” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
  4. How does Numbers 25:14, which shares the word «Sallu», read alongside this verse?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

  • 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
  • 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
  • These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
  • 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.

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