אַנְשֵׁ֤י בֵֽית אֵל֙ וְהָעָ֔י מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה
The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
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Nehemiah 7:32
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:32 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 Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Bethel and Ai were 123.
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 Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
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King James Version Public Domain
The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and three.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundreth and three and twentie.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Men of Bethel and Ai: a hundred twenty and three.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Bethel and Ai, 123.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The men of Bethel and Ai were 123.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty three.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the people from Bethel and Ai, 123;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and three.
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וְהָעָ֔י
ʻAy
H5857
“and · the · Ai”
Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- Appears 40× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 12:8
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Particle + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"
- a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the 2nd city taken on the invasion of Canaan
- a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon
- אַנְשֵׁ֤י ʼîysh H376 “men of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בֵֽית Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 “Bethel” Noun, Proper
- אֵל֙ Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 “Bethel” Noun, Proper
- וְהָעָ֔י ʻAy H5857 “and · the · Ai” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה shâlôwsh H7969 “and · three” 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
Cross-references
3Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
- Joshua 8:9 Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
- Joshua 8:17 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
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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
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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻAy (“Ai”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Ai” (ʻAy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 12:8, which shares the word «Ai», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “Bethel” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- 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 5 words in this verse.
- “Bethel” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.