Ezra 2:65

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them 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: and can I discern between good and evil? 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 the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Neh 7:67 : 67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, 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{H8802)} went before{H8765)}, the players on instruments{H8802)} followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels{H8802)}.
Ps 148:12-13 : 12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Eccl 2:8 : 8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Jer 9:17-18 : 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning 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 minstrels and the people making a noise,
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 the LORD, 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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66The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
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66Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
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7So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
Ezra 2:64
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