הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים בְּנֵ֣י אָסָ֔ף מֵאָ֖ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה
The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
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Nehemiah 7:44
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:44 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 singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
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King James Version Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The ones who sang: the sons of Asaph were 148.
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 singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.
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King James Version Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred forty and eight.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundreth, and eight and fourtie.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
The singers: sons of Asaph: a hundred forty and eight.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The singers: sons of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The singers: The descendants of Asaph, 148.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The ones who sang: the sons of Asaph were 148.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph: one hundred forty-eight.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty eight.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the singers of the sons of Asaph, 148;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred forty and eight.
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אָסָ֔ף
ʼÂçâph
H623
“Asaph”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 46× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 18:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Asaph = "gatherer"
- the father of Hezekiah's secretary
- a son of Berechiah, chief Levite musician under David
- a Persian officer over the royal forest
- הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים shîyr H7891 “the · singing” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Polel, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אָסָ֔ף ʼÂçâph H623 “Asaph” Noun, Proper
- מֵאָ֖ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “forty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנָֽה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אָסָ֔ף Asaph H623 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 2 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Verb forms
- הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים Polel · Participle Active
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:44 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 25:2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king.
- Ezra 2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
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
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÂçâph (“Asaph”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Asaph” (ʼÂçâph) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 2 Kings 18:18 shares the word «Asaph» 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?
- The verb «הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים» is Polel Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.