The Meaning of Nehemiah 11:19 Explained

Nehemiah 11:19

KJV: Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.

YLT: And the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, those watching at the gates, are a hundred seventy and two.

Darby: And the doorkeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.

ASV: Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Moreover the porters,  Akkub,  Talmon,  and their brethren  that kept  the gates,  [were] an hundred  seventy  and two. 

What does Nehemiah 11:19 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Nehemiah 11

1  The rulers, voluntary men, and the tenth man chosen by lot, dwell at Jerusalem
3  A catalogue of their names
20  Those who remain dwell in other cities

What do the individual words in Nehemiah 11:19 mean?

Moreover the gatekeepers [were] Akkub Talmon and their brothers who kept the gates a hundred seventy and two
וְהַשּֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙ עַקּ֣וּב טַלְמ֔וֹן וַאֲחֵיהֶ֖ם הַשֹּׁמְרִ֣ים בַּשְּׁעָרִ֑ים מֵאָ֖ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם

וְהַשּֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙  Moreover  the  gatekeepers  [were] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: שֹׁועֵר  
Sense: gatekeeper, porter.
עַקּ֣וּב  Akkub 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: עַקּוּב  
Sense: son of Elioenai and descendant of David through Zerubbabel.
טַלְמ֔וֹן  Talmon 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: טַלְמֹון  
Sense: the head of a family of doorkeepers in the temple; some of his descendants returned from exile with Zerubbabel and were employed in their hereditary office in the days of Nehemiah and Ezra.
וַאֲחֵיהֶ֖ם  and  their  brothers 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: אָח  
Sense: brother.
הַשֹּׁמְרִ֣ים  who  kept 
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: שָׁמַר  
Sense: to keep, guard, observe, give heed.
בַּשְּׁעָרִ֑ים  the  gates 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: שַׁעַר  
Sense: gate.
מֵאָ֖ה  a  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
שִׁבְעִ֥ים  seventy 
Parse: Number, common plural
Root: שִׁבְעִים  
Sense: seventy.
וּשְׁנָֽיִם  and  two 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, md
Root: שְׁנַיִם  
Sense: two.

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