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Nehemiah 7:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:12 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.
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Nehemiah 7:12 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/nehemiah/7/12.

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The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Elam were 1, 254.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The sonnes of Elam, a thousand, two hundreth fiftie and foure.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Sons of Elam: a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of Elam, 1,254.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Elam were 1, 254.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the sons of Elam, 1,254;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

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עֵילָ֔ם
ʻÊylâm
H5867
“Elam”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably from H5956

TWOT: None

Elam = "eternity" - a Korhite Levite in the time of David (noun proper masculine) - a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin (noun proper masculine) - ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel (noun proper masculine) - a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah (noun proper masculine) - another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel (noun proper masculine) - a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (noun proper masculine) - another head of a family of returning exiles (noun proper masculine) - a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris (noun proper locative)
  1. בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. אֶ֕לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  3. מָאתַ֖יִם mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Dual, Absolute
  4. חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים chămishshîym H2572 “fifty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  5. וְאַרְבָּעָֽה ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

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6
words
6
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

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עֵילָ֔ם Elam H5867 occurs in 27 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
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Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ezra 2:7 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
  • Ezra 8:7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
  • Ezra 10:26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 7:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י עֵילָ֔ם אֶ֕לֶף מָאתַ֖יִם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָֽה

The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

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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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻÊylâm (“Elam”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

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  1. How does “Elam” (ʻÊylâm) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Genesis 10:22, which shares the word «Elam», read alongside this verse?
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