למלוכי לִמְלִ֨יכוּ֙ יֽוֹנָתָ֔ן לִשְׁבַנְיָ֖ה יוֹסֵֽף
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Nehemiah 12:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 12:14 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
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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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
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
of Malluk, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Vnder Melicu, Ionathan, vnder Shebaniah, Ioseph,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Jonathan was the leader of Malluk, and Joseph was the leader of Shebaniah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
of Malluk, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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לִשְׁבַנְיָ֖ה
Shᵉbanyâh
H7645
“to/for · Shebaniah”
Preposition + Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 15:24
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shebaniah = "increased by Jehovah"
- a Levite who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- a 2nd Levite who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- a priest appointed by David to blow with the trumpets before the ark of God
- למלוכי Mallûwk H4409 “to/for · Malluch” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- לִמְלִ֨יכוּ֙ Mallûwk H4409 “to/for · Malluch” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- יֽוֹנָתָ֔ן Yôwnâthân H3129 “Jonathan” Noun, Proper
- לִשְׁבַנְיָ֖ה Shᵉbanyâh H7645 “to/for · Shebaniah” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- יוֹסֵֽף Yôwçêph H3130 “Joseph” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 5
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לִשְׁבַנְיָ֖ה Shebaniah H7645 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לִשְׁבַנְיָ֖ה Shebaniah H7645 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- למלוכי Malluch H4409 ×2
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).
A verse-for-verse comparison isn’t shown here because the chapters and verses don’t line up. Switch to the LXX edition with the MT / LXX toggle above to read the Greek directly.
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 5 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shᵉbanyâh (“Shebaniah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Shebaniah” (Shᵉbanyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does 1 Chronicles 15:24, which shares the word «Shebaniah», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “Malluch” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- “Malluch” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 12:14 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 →
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 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.