Nethinims: meaning of the name

Nethinims in Hebrew and Greek

Nethinims in Scripture

“Nethinims” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• 1 Chronicles 9:2

  Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

• Ezra 2:43

  The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

• Ezra 2:58

  All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

• Ezra 2:70

  So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

• Ezra 7:7

  And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

• Ezra 7:24

  Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

• Ezra 8:17

  And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

• Ezra 8:20

  Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.