KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Ezra 2:65
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
WEB World English Bible
besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
apart from their servants and their handmaids; these are seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and of them are singers and songstresses two hundred.
Surrounding context — Ezra 2
62 These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
64 The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred [and] threescore,
65 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.
66 Their horses [were] seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their] asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
68 And [some] of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which [is] at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
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מִ֠לְּבַדH905 · badalone: poleעַבְדֵיהֶ֤םH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveוְאַמְהֹֽתֵיהֶם֙H519 · a.mahmaidservantאֵ֔לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseשִׁבְעַ֣תH7651 · she.vasevenאֲלָפִ֔יםH505 · e.lephthousandשְׁלֹ֥שׁH7969 · sha.loshthreeמֵא֖וֹתH3967 · me.ahhundredשְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםH7970 · she.lo.shimthirtyוְשִׁבְעָ֑הH7651 · she.vasevenוְלָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemמְשֹׁרְרִ֥יםH7891 · shirto singוּֽמְשֹׁרְר֖וֹתH7891 · shirto singמָאתָֽיִם׃H3967 · me.ahhundred
Cross-references
2 Samuel 19:35I [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 Chronicles 35:25And 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.Psalm 68:25The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.Matthew 9:23And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,Ecclesiastes 2:8I 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.Psalm 148:12-13Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:Exodus 15:20-21And 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.Isaiah 14:1-2For 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.Nehemiah 7:67Beside 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.Jeremiah 9:17-18Thus 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:
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