הַלְוִיִּ֑ם בְּנֵֽי יֵשׁ֧וּעַ לְקַדְמִיאֵ֛ל לִבְנֵ֥י לְהוֹדְוָ֖ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָֽה
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Nehemiah 7:43
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:43 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 Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
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King James Version Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons to Hodevah, were 74.
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 Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodevah), 74.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodevah), 74.
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King James Version Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The Leuites: the sonnes of Ieshua of Kadmiel, and of the sonnes of Hodiuah, seuentie and foure.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
The Levites: sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel: of sons of Hodevah: seventy and four.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The Levites: sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of sons of Hodevah, seventy-four.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The Levites: The descendants of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of Binnui, and of Hodevah, 74.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons to Hodevah, were 74.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua [and] of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodvah, seventy-four.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Yeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy four.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
This is the number of the Levites: the sons of Jeshua through Kadmiel (sons of Hodaviah), 74;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodeiah, seventy and four.
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לְהוֹדְוָ֖ה
Hôwdᵉvâh
H1937
“to/for · Hodevah”
Preposition + Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hodevah = "praise of Jehovah"
- the head of a Levitical family returning from Exile in the time of Nehemiah
- הַלְוִיִּ֑ם Lêvîyîy H3881 “the · Levites” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יֵשׁ֧וּעַ Yêshûwaʻ H3442 “Jeshua” Noun, Proper
- לְקַדְמִיאֵ֛ל Qadmîyʼêl H6934 “to/for · Kadmiel” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- לִבְנֵ֥י bên H1121 “to/for · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- לְהוֹדְוָ֖ה Hôwdᵉvâh H1937 “to/for · Hodevah” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- שִׁבְעִ֥ים shibʻîym H7657 “seventy” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְאַרְבָּעָֽה ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” 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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- לְהוֹדְוָ֖ה Hodevah H1937
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- לְהוֹדְוָ֖ה Hodevah H1937
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְקַדְמִיאֵ֛ל Kadmiel H6934 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנֵֽי son H1121 ×2
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
- Nehemiah 3:9 Next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem.
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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Hôwdᵉvâh (“Hodevah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hodevah” (Hôwdᵉvâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- This is the first place “Hodevah” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Ezra 2:40, which shares the word «Kadmiel», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (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?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:43 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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Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.