אַנְשֵׁ֤י הָֽרָמָה֙ וָגָ֔בַע שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאֶחָֽד
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
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Nehemiah 7:30
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:30 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 Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Ramah and Geba were 621.
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 Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Gaba, sixe hundreth and one and twentie.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Men of Ramah and Gaba: six hundred twenty and one.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty-one;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Ramah and Geba were 621.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba: six hundred twenty-one.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred and twenty one.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the people from Ramah and Geba, 621;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
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וָגָ֔בַע
Gebaʻ
H1387
“and · Geba”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 18× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 18:24
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill"
- a city in Benjamin, modern 'Jeba', which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, six miles or ten kilometres north east of Jerusalem and three miles or five kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern 'Mukhmas'
- אַנְשֵׁ֤י ʼîysh H376 “men of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- הָֽרָמָה֙ Râmâh H7414 “the · Ramah” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- וָגָ֔בַע Gebaʻ H1387 “and · Geba” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- שֵׁ֥שׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְאֶחָֽד ʼechâd H259 “and · one” 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
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 18:24–25 and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
- Ezra 2:26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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
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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gebaʻ (“Geba”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Gebaʻ carries the sense “Geba.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Joshua 18:24, which shares the word «Geba», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:30 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.