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Nehemiah 7:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 7:9 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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Nehemiah 7:9 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/nehemiah/7/9.

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The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Shephatiah were 372.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth seuentie and two.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Sons of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy and two.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of Shephatiah, 372.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Shephatiah were 372.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy two.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the sons of Shephatiah, 372;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

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שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה
Shᵉphaṭyâh
H8203
“Shephatiah”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H8199 and H3050

TWOT: None

Shephatiah = "Jehovah has judged" - a son of David by Abital; David's 5th son - head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel - another head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel - a Judaite, son of Mahalaleel and father of Amariah - a prince of Judah, son of Mattan and one of the counsellors who advised king Zedekiah of Judah to kill the prophet Jeremiah - the Haruphite, one of David's mighty warriors who joined him at Ziklag - son of Maachah and prince of the tribe of Simeon in the time of David - son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah and brother to his successor Jehoram
  1. בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. שְׁלֹ֥שׁ shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  4. שִׁבְעִ֥ים shibʻîym H7657 “seventy” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  5. וּשְׁנָֽיִם shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute

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6
words
6
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה Shephatiah H8203 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה Shephatiah H8203 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
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Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 7:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Ezra 2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
  • Ezra 8:8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

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Hebrew Nehemiah 7:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י שְׁפַטְיָ֔ה שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

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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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shᵉphaṭyâh (“Shephatiah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

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  1. The word Shᵉphaṭyâh carries the sense “Shephatiah.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 2 Samuel 3:4, which shares the word «Shephatiah», read alongside this verse?
  3. 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?

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