אַנְשֵׁ֥י בֵית עַזְמָ֖וֶת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם
The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.
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Nehemiah 7:28
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:28 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 Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Beth Azmaveth were 42.
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 Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Beth-azmaveth, 42;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Beth-azmaveth, 42;
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The me of Beth-azmaueth, two and fourty.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Men of Beth-Azmaveth: forty and two.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
men of Beth-Azmaveth, forty-two;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Beth Azmaveth, 42.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Beth Azmaveth were 42.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty two.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the people from Beth-azmaveth 42;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.
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בֵית
Bêyth ʻAzmâveth
H1041
“Beth-azmaveth”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Beth-azmaveth = "house of the strength of death"
- a place near Jerusalem
- אַנְשֵׁ֥י ʼîysh H376 “men of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בֵית Bêyth ʻAzmâveth H1041 “Beth-azmaveth” Noun, Proper
- עַזְמָ֖וֶת Bêyth ʻAzmâveth H1041 “Beth-azmaveth” Noun, Proper
- אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “forty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁנָֽיִם shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, 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
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בֵית Beth-azmaveth H1041 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- בֵית Beth-azmaveth H1041
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בֵית Beth-azmaveth H1041 ×2
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
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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 (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bêyth ʻAzmâveth (“Beth-azmaveth”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Beth-azmaveth” (Bêyth ʻAzmâveth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- The word “Beth-azmaveth” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Ezra 2:24 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “Beth-azmaveth” 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
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “Beth-azmaveth” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.