אַנְשֵׁ֤י בֵֽית לֶ֨חֶם֙ וּנְטֹפָ֔ה מֵאָ֖ה שְׁמֹנִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
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Nehemiah 7:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:26 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 men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah were 188.
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 men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundreth foure score and eight.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Men of Beth-Lehem and Netophah: a hundred eighty and eight.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
men of Beth-Lehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The men from Bethlehem and Netophah, 188.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah were 188.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah: one hundred eighty-eight.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty eight.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the people from Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight.
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וּנְטֹפָ֔ה
Nᵉṭôphâh
H5199
“and · Netophah”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 2:22
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Netophah = "dropping"
- a town in Judah resettled by the exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel
- אַנְשֵׁ֤י ʼîysh H376 “men of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בֵֽית Bêyth Lechem H1035 “Bethlehem” Noun, Proper
- לֶ֨חֶם֙ Bêyth Lechem H1035 “Bethlehem” Noun, Proper
- וּנְטֹפָ֔ה Nᵉṭôphâh H5199 “and · Netophah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- שְׁמֹנִ֥ים shᵉmônîym H8084 “eighty” 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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּנְטֹפָ֔ה Netophah H5199 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּנְטֹפָ֔ה Netophah H5199 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בֵֽית Bethlehem H1035 ×2
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:21–22 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
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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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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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nᵉṭôphâh (“Netophah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Netophah” (Nᵉṭôphâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- Ezra 2:22 shares the word «Netophah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “Bethlehem” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- 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
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “Bethlehem” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:26 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 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.