Nehemiah 12:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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מְרֵמֹֽת

Mᵉrêmôwth

H4822

“Meremoth”

Noun, Proper

Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Ezra 8:33

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7311

TWOT: None

Meremoth = "elevations" - a priest, son of Uriah of the family of Koz active in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and in the 7th course of temple service in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah - a priest in the time of Zerubbabel - a returning exile of the family of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

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 →

3: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מְרֵמֹֽת Meremoth H4822 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מְרֵמֹֽת Meremoth H4822 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 12:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

שְׁכַנְיָ֥ה רְחֻ֖ם מְרֵמֹֽת

Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

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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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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 12:3 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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The Pulpit Commentary

Shechaniah Rather, "Shebaniah," as the name is given in Neh_10:4 and Neh_12:14. Rehum. Rather, "Harim," which is found in ver. 15, and also in Neh_10:5. Compare, moreover, Ezr_2:39 Neh_7:42. Meremoth is probably correct, though altered to Meraioth in ver. 15, since we find Meremoth in Neh_10:5.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉrêmôwth (“Meremoth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Meremoth” (Mᵉrêmôwth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Ezra 8:33, which shares the word «Meremoth», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.