בְּנֵֽי אָטֵ֥ר לְחִזְקִיָּ֖ה תִּשְׁעִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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Nehemiah 7:21
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:21 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
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, were 98.
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
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah), 98;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah), 98;
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Ater of Hizkiah, ninetie and eight.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Ater of Hezekiah: ninety and eight.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of Ater, of Hezekiah, 98.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, were 98.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Ater of [the family of] Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Ater: of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety eight.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Ater (sons of Hezekiah), 98;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
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אָטֵ֥ר
ʼÂṭêr
H333
“Ater”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 2:16
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ater = "binder"
- an exiled descendant of Hezekiah
- an exiled Levite porter (perhaps same as 1)
- a chief Israelite who sealed Nehemiah's covenant
- בְּנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אָטֵ֥ר ʼÂṭêr H333 “Ater” Noun, Proper
- לְחִזְקִיָּ֖ה Chizqîyâh H2396 “to/for · Hezekiah” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- תִּשְׁעִ֥ים tishʻîym H8673 “ninety” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנָֽה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 5
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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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).
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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 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÂṭêr (“Ater”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼÂṭêr carries the sense “Ater.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Ezra 2:16, which shares the word «Ater», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:21 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.
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 →
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.
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.