Ezra 2:65

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִ֠לְּבַד עַבְדֵיהֶ֤ם וְאַמְהֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ אֵ֔לֶּה שִׁבְעַ֣ת אֲלָפִ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וְשִׁבְעָ֑ה וְלָהֶ֛ם מְשֹׁרְרִ֥ים וּֽמְשֹׁרְר֖וֹת מָאתָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

from-ləḇaḏ 'aḇḏêhem and-'amhōṯêhem 'êlleh šiḇ'aṯ 'ălāp̄îm šəlōš mê'ôṯ šəlōšîm and-šiḇ'āh and-to-them məšōrərîm and-məšōrərôṯ mā'ṯāyim

Grammar Details

*ləḇaḏ*: preposition + noun - besides/apart from
*'aḇḏêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their male servants
*'amhōṯêhem*: feminine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their female servants
*'êlleh*: demonstrative pronoun - these
*šiḇ'aṯ*: construct form of *šiḇ'āh* - seven of
*'ălāp̄îm*: masculine plural - thousands
*šəlōš*: cardinal number, feminine form - three
*mê'ôṯ*: feminine plural of *mê'āh* - hundreds
*šəlōšîm*: cardinal number - thirty
*šiḇ'āh*: cardinal number - seven
*məšōrərîm*: Polel participle, masculine plural - male singers
*məšōrərôṯ*: Polel participle, feminine plural - female singers
*mā'ṯāyim*: cardinal number, dual form - two hundred

Word Meanings

*ləḇaḏ*: besides/apart from/in addition to
*məšōrərîm*: singers/musicians/chanters

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Neh 7:67 : 67 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Ps 68:25 : 25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
Ps 148:12-13 : 12 Both young men and virgins; Old men and children: 13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For his name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Eccl 2:8 : 8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Jer 9:17-18 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come: 18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Matt 9:23 : 23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult,
Exod 15:20-21 : 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Neh 7:66-69
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95%
66The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
67besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
68Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
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Ezra 2:66-67
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66Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
67their camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their] asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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7And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in singing unto Jehovah, even all that were skilful, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
Ezra 2:64
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64The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
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Neh 7:60
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60All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
1 Kgs 20:15
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15Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty - two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
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25The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
Ezra 2:58
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2And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
Num 31:35-37
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Ezra 2:33-35
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33The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.
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Num 4:40
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40even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
Neh 7:18-19
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Num 2:26
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Num 2:23
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32These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
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44even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
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43The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
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33and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,
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