וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ אַחֲרֵיהֶם֙ הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה וַחֲצִ֖י שָׂרֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Nehemiah 12:32
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 12:32 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
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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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
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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King James Version Public Domain
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And after them went Hoshaiah with half of the officials of Judah,
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
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,
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King James Version Public Domain
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the princes of Iudah,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and after them goeth Hoshaiah, and half of the heads of Judah,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and after them goes Hoshaiah, and half of the heads of Judah,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And after them went Hoshaiah with half of the officials of Judah,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the rulers of Judah,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah;
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הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה
Hôwshaʻyâh
H1955
“Hoshaiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hoshaiah = "Jehovah as saved"
- a prince of Judah who assisted in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
- the father of Jezaniah (or Azariah) who was a man of note after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in the time of Jeremiah
- וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ yâlak H3212 “and · to walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אַחֲרֵיהֶם֙ ʼachar H310 “after · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה Hôwshaʻyâh H1955 “Hoshaiah” Noun, Proper
- וַחֲצִ֖י chêtsîy H2677 “and · half of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שָׂרֵ֥י sar H8269 “princes of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יְהוּדָֽה Yᵉhûwdâh H3063 “Judah” 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה Hoshaiah H1955 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה Hoshaiah H1955
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה Hoshaiah H1955 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 4 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
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.
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Hôwshaʻyâh (“Hoshaiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hoshaiah” (Hôwshaʻyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- This is the first place “Hoshaiah” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Jeremiah 42:1, which shares the word «Hoshaiah», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- 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
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 12:32 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.
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword 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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.