Nehemiah 3:21

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

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תַּכְלִ֖ית

taklîyth

H8503

“end of”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3615

TWOT: 982f

end, perfection, consummation, completion, completeness - end - completeness

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 →

16: words
13: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is תַּכְלִ֖ית end H8503 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

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

תַּכְלִ֖ית end H8503

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תַּכְלִ֖ית end H8503 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
12 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions

Verb forms

הֶחֱזִ֗יק Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בֶּן son H1121 ×2
בֵּ֣ית house H1004 ×2
אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יב Eliashib H475 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 3:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezra 2:61 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
Nehemiah 7:63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 3:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אַחֲרָ֣יו הֶחֱזִ֗יק מְרֵמ֧וֹת בֶּן אוּרִיָּ֛ה בֶּן הַקּ֖וֹץ מִדָּ֣ה שֵׁנִ֑ית מִפֶּ֨תַח֙ בֵּ֣ית אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יב וְעַד תַּכְלִ֖ית בֵּ֥ית אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב

After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

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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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 →

Commentary

Notes on Nehemiah 3:21 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Neh 3:21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

Ver. 21. Even to the end of the house of Eliashib] A small praise, saith one, if the house were not of some greatness. Eliashib was high priest, and dwelt, like himself, in a fair large house.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Neh 3:21. From the door of the house of Eliashib, &c. — He carried on the work from the place where the other left off, from the door of the house to the end of it, which, being the house of a great man, we may suppose was very large.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(21) Another piece.—Meremoth added to his other labour the repair of the wall under this house.

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

21. Urijah the son of Koz] R.V. Uriah the son of Hakkoz.

another piece] R.V. another portion. Meremoth was also concerned in the repair of the Northern wall. See on Neh_3:4.

even to the end] This description seems to imply that the high-priest’s house was a building of considerable extent, and that it was built upon the city wall. The word rendered ‘end’ (taclîth) seems only to occur in this sense twice elsewhere in the O.T., Job_26:10, ‘confines,’ Job_28:3, ‘end.’ Elsewhere e.g. Psa_139:22 it is used to denote ‘perfection,’ ‘completeness.’ The words proved a difficulty to the versions, e.g. LXX. ἕως ἐκλείψεως, Vulg. donec extenderetur.

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

And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain. Either of the plain of Jericho, where, in later times at least, there was a station of the priests, or of the plain about Jerusalem; those also assisted in the repairs of the wall.

And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain. Either of the plain of Jericho, where, in later times at least, there was a station of the priests, or of the plain about Jerusalem; those also assisted in the repairs of the wall.

Nehemiah 3:23

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neh 3:23

neh 3:23After him,.... The last of the priests before mentioned:

repaired Benjamin, and Hashub, over against their house; as much of the wall as the length of their house, or houses, were:

after him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, by his house: as far as that reached.

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

Therefore the door was not in the middle of the house, as now they commonly are, but at one end of it.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Meremoth"s first piece is mentioned in ver. 4. The second piece cannot have been very long, since it only extended along a portion of the high priest"s house.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The door - Therefore the door was not in the middle of the house, as now they commonly are, but at one end of it.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

from the entrance of the house of Eliashib until the end of, etc. Opposite that house he built his structure.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 16 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is taklîyth (“end”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “end” (taklîyth) shape what this verse is saying?
This is the first place “end” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Job 11:7, which shares the word «end», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«הֶחֱזִ֗יק» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary 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 14 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
13 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 16 words in this verse.