Nehemiah 7:71

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:71 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.
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Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And some from the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work 20,000 gold darics and 2, 200 silver minas.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And some of the heads of fathers' `houses' gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drama of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Some of the heads of ancestors' families gave into the treasury for the work twenty thousand darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And some from the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work 20,000 gold darics and 2, 200 silver minas.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And [some] of the chief fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Some of the family leaders donated to the treasury for the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.

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דַּרְכְּמוֹנִ֖ים
darkᵉmôwn
H1871
“darics”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: of Persian origin

TWOT: 453c

daric, drachma, dram, unit of measure from Babylon; 128 grains (8.32 grams) of gold worth about $120 dollars and 128 grains of silver worth about $2.40 - a gold coin current in Palestine in the period after the return
  1. וּמֵֽרָאשֵׁ֣י rôʼsh H7218 “and · from · heads of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. הָֽאָב֗וֹת ʼâb H1 “the · fathers” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  3. נָֽתְנוּ֙ nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  4. לְאוֹצַ֣ר ʼôwtsâr H214 “to/for · storehouse of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה mᵉlâʼkâh H4399 “the · work” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  6. זָהָ֕ב zâhâb H2091 “gold” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. שְׁתֵּ֣י shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Construct
  8. רִבּ֑וֹת ribbôw H7239 “ten thousands” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
  9. וְכֶ֕סֶף keçeph H3701 “and · silver” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. מָנִ֖ים mâneh H4488 “minas” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  11. אַלְפַּ֥יִם ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  12. וּמָאתָֽיִם mêʼâh H3967 “and · hundred” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Dual, Absolute

About this verse

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13
words
13
distinct lemmas
Historical
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is דַּרְכְּמוֹנִ֖ים daric H1871 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

דַּרְכְּמוֹנִ֖ים daric H1871 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 9 nouns
  • 3 adjectives

Verb forms

  • נָֽתְנוּ֙ Qal · Perfect

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:71 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Job 34:19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Luke 21:1–4 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
  • 2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 7:71 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמֵֽרָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֗וֹת נָֽתְנוּ֙ לְאוֹצַ֣ר הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה זָהָ֕ב דַּרְכְּמוֹנִ֖ים שְׁתֵּ֣י רִבּ֑וֹת וְכֶ֕סֶף מָנִ֖ים אַלְפַּ֥יִם וּמָאתָֽיִם

Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

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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On this verse, Adam Clarke's Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 →

Commentary

Notes on Nehemiah 7:71 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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John Gill's Exposition

And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachms of gold,.... Worth as many pounds of our money, and somewhat more:

and two thousand pound of silver; of which See Gill on Neh 7:71,

and threescore and seven priests' garments; having been so long in Babylon, and no use of sacrifices, and so not of garments to minister in, no care was taken to provide any; which seems to be the reason why so many were given, when they returned to their own land, and sacrificed.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, minas.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

pound of silver--that is, mina (sixty shekels, or £9).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 71. Two thousand and two hundred pounds] The Septuagint has two thousand THREE hundred minae of silver.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

71. to the treasure] R.V. into the treasury.

pound] R.V. marg. ‘Heb. maneh’.

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.

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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is darkᵉmôwn (“daric”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word darkᵉmôwn carries the sense “daric.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Ezra 2:69 shares the word «daric» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. The verb «נָֽתְנוּ֙» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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