הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים בְּנֵ֤י יְדַֽעְיָה֙ לְבֵ֣ית יֵשׁ֔וּעַ תְּשַׁ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה
The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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Nehemiah 7:39
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:39 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 priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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King James Version Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, were 973;
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 priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
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King James Version Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The Priestes: the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie and three.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine hundred and seventy-three.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
The priests: sons of Jedaiah: of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy and three;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The priests: sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (of the house of Jeshua), 973.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, were 973;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Yeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy three.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
This is the number of the priests: the sons of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua), 973;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the family of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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יְדַֽעְיָה֙
Yᵉdaʻyâh
H3048
“Jedaiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 9:10
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Jedaiah = "Jehovah has known"
- a priest in Jerusalem
- a man who returned with Zerubbabel
- a ruler of the priests in the days of Jeshua
- a post exilic priest
- one honoured by Jehovah, perhaps one of the above
- הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים kôhên H3548 “the · priests” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּנֵ֤י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יְדַֽעְיָה֙ Yᵉdaʻyâh H3048 “Jedaiah” Noun, Proper
- לְבֵ֣ית bayith H1004 “to/for · house of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יֵשׁ֔וּעַ Yêshûwaʻ H3442 “Jeshua” Noun, Proper
- תְּשַׁ֥ע têshaʻ H8672 “nine” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שִׁבְעִ֥ים shibʻîym H7657 “seventy” 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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 24:7–19 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
- Ezra 2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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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Lesson kit
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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉdaʻyâh (“Jedaiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Yᵉdaʻyâh carries the sense “Jedaiah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 Chronicles 9:10 shares the word «Jedaiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Reading how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:39 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 →
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.