בְּנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בְּנֵי סוֹטַ֥י בְּנֵי סוֹפֶ֖רֶת בְּנֵ֥י פְרִידָֽא
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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Nehemiah 7:57
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:57 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 Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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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 children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of the servants of Solomon were: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
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 Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Salomons seruantes, the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, ye sonnes of Perida,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perida,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perida,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of Solomon's servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of the servants of Solomon were: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The descendants of King Solomon's servants: Sotai, Sophereth, Perida,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida;
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סוֹטַ֥י
Çôwṭay
H5479
“Sotai”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 2:55
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Sotai = "changeful"
- ancestor of a family of Solomon's servants who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
- בְּנֵ֖י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- עַבְדֵ֣י ʻebed H5650 “servants of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה Shᵉlômôh H8010 “Solomon” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- סוֹטַ֥י Çôwṭay H5479 “Sotai” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- סוֹפֶ֖רֶת Çôphereth H5618 “Sophereth” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- פְרִידָֽא Pᵉrûwdâʼ H6514 “Peruda” 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 →
- 9
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is סוֹטַ֥י Sotai H5479 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
סוֹטַ֥י Sotai H5479 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 9 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנֵ֖י son H1121 ×4
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:57 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Ezra 2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
- Nehemiah 11:3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
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
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 9 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Çôwṭay (“Sotai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Çôwṭay carries the sense “Sotai.” How does it shape the verse?
- Ezra 2:55 shares the word «Sotai» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Reading how The Pulpit Commentary and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:57 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 →
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.