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The singers:הַמְשֹׁרְרִיםthe sonsבְּנֵיof Asaph,אָסָףone hundred forty-eight.מֵאָה אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁמֹנָה
Nehemiah 7:44
Study it in the app“The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Nehemiah 7:44, word by word
- The singersמְשֹׁרְרִיםmeshorrim
singer
Levites in charge of leading the singing in the house of YHWH, with instruments.
Where else “meshorrim” appears- the sonsבְּנֵיbene
descendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appears- of Asaphאָסָףasaf
Asaph
Asaph: a name meaning "gatherer," borne by the father of Joah, Hezekiah's recorder (2 Kings 18:18); the Levite who led the singers in David's time, to whom several psalms are attributed (1 Chronicles 16:5; Psalms 50; 73-83); and a keeper of the Persian king's forest (Nehemiah 2:8).
Where else “asaf” appears- one hundred forty-eightמֵאָהmea
hundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “mea” appears- one hundred forty-eightאַרְבָּעִיםarbaim
forty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appears- one hundred forty-eightשְׁמֹנָהshemona
eight
Eight; also "eighth".
Where else “shemona” appears
The context
43The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four.
44 · This verse (above)
45The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.