Nehemiah 12:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה

Maʻădyâh

H4573

“Maadiah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5710 and H3050

TWOT: None

Maadiah = "adorned of JAH" - one of the priests who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

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

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

מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה Maadiah H4573

First appearance in Scripture

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

מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה Maadiah H4573

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בִּלְגָּֽה Bilgah H1083 occurs in 3 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 12:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מִיָּמִ֥ין מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה בִּלְגָּֽה

Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

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 12:5 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

Miamin is confirmed by Neh_10:7, and is therefore to be preferred to the "Miniamin" of ver. 17. Maadiah "Moadiah" (ver. 17), and "Maaziah" (Neh_10:8) are not so much different names as different ways of spelling the same name. The same may be said of Bilgah and "Bilgai". (Neh_10:8)

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 Maʻădyâh (“Maadiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Maʻădyâh carries the sense “Maadiah.” How does it shape the verse?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
This is the first place “Maadiah” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does 1 Chronicles 24:14, which shares the word «Bilgah», 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

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 4 words in this verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.