Nehemiah 7 · Verse 8

Nehemiah 7:8

The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

Nehemiah 7:8, King James Version

Nehemiah 7:8 in other translations

BSB	the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
WEB	The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
ASV	The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy and two.
YLT	Sons of Parosh: two thousand a hundred and seventy and two.
DARBY	The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two.
BBE	The children of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.
Webster	The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy two.

What does Nehemiah 7:8 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 8 The children of Parosh - As this chapter is almost entirely the same with the second chapter of the book of Ezra, it is not necessary to add any thing to what is said there; and to that chapter, and the accompanying notes, the reader is requested to refer.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 7:5-73

Nehemiah knew that the safety of a city, under God, depends more upon the inhabitants than upon its walls. Every good gift and every good work are from above. God gives knowledge, he gives grace; all is of him, and therefore all must be to him. What is done by human prudence, must be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. But woe to those who turn back from the Lord, loving this present world! and happy…

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Nehemiah 7:8 in the original Hebrew

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בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei[the] descendants ofH1121

פַרְעֹ֔שׁfar.'OshParoshH6551

אַלְפַּ֕יִם'al.Pa.yimtwo thousandH505

מֵאָ֖הme.'Ahone hundredH3967

וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםve.shiv.'Imand seventyH7657

וּשְׁנָֽיִם\׃\ \סu.she.Na.yimand twoH8147

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Nehemiah 7:8

Ezra 2:3
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
Ezra 8:3
Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Nehemiah 10:25
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
Nehemiah 10:14
The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath–moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Parosh.
10:14; Ezr 2:3; 8:3
Pharosh.
10:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Nehemiah 7:7
Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
Nehemiah 7:8
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah 7:9
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

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Nehemiah 7:8 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Los hijos de Paros, dos mil ciento setenta y dos;
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Les fils de Parhosh, 2 172;
German Elberfelder 1871	Die Söhne Parhosch, 2172;
Latin Clementine Vulgate	filii Pharos, duo millia centum septuaginta duo: