גמלים ארבע מאות שלשים וחמשה חמרים ששת אלפים שבע מאות ועשרים
[their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Nehemiah 7:69
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:69 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
[their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
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World English Bible Public Domain
[their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
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King James Version Public Domain
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The camels were 435. The donkeys were 6, 720.
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
[their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
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King James Version Public Domain
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
`their' camels, four hundred thirty and five; `their' asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The camels foure hundreth and fiue and thirtie, and sixe thousande, seuen hundreth and twentie asses.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Their camels, four hundred thirty- five, their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
camels, four hundred thirty and five; asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
camels, four hundred thirty-five; donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
their camels, 435, and their donkeys, 6,720.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The camels were 435. The donkeys were 6, 720.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the camels, four hundred and thirty-five; the asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Their camels, four hundred and thirty five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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גמלים
gâmâl
H1581
“camels”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 55× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 12:16
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
camel
- as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food
- גמלים gâmâl H1581 “camels” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- ארבע ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מאות mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שלשים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “thirty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וחמשה châmêsh H2568 “and · five” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- חמרים chămôwr H2543 “donkeys” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
- ששת shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אלפים ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שבע shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מאות mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- ועשרים ʻesrîym H6242 “and · twenty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, 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 →
- 11
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
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
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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gâmâl (“camel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “camel” (gâmâl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 12:16, which shares the word «camel», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “hundred” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
- “hundred” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 7:69 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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).