בְּנֵי לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י שַׁלְמָֽי
the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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Nehemiah 7:48
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:48 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 children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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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 children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,
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 children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Shalmai,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Shalmai,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Lebana, the sonnes of Hagaba, the sonnes of Shalmai,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Ceros, the children of Siaa, the children of Phadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Selmai,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
sons of Lebanah, sons of Hagaba, sons of Shalmai,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Lebanah, sons of Hagaba, sons of Shalmai,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
the descendants of Lebana, the descendants of Hagaba, the descendants of Shalmai,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Lebanah, Hagabah, Shalmai,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai;
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לְבָנָ֥ה
Lᵉbânâʼ
H3838
“Lebanah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 2:45
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Lebanah or Lebana = "moon-white"
- head of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- לְבָנָ֥ה Lᵉbânâʼ H3838 “Lebanah” Noun, Proper
- בְנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חֲגָבָ֖ה Chăgâbâʼ H2286 “Hagaba” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שַׁלְמָֽי Salmay H8014 “Shalmai” Noun, Proper
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
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לְבָנָ֥ה Lebanah H3838 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְבָנָ֥ה Lebanah H3838 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנֵי son H1121 ×3
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:48 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:45–46 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
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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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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 (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Lᵉbânâʼ (“Lebanah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Lebanah” (Lᵉbânâʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
- Ezra 2:45 shares the word «Lebanah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- 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 4 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.