What Does Ezra 2:22 Mean in the King James?
The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Netophah’s Hebrew name may echo נָטַף (nāṭap̄, “to drip”): the count stays attached to a place whose name can carry the image of a trickle.
THE MEANING
This line keeps a count connected to a place: fifty-six men are identified with Netophah, rather than left as an abstract total. The name is commonly linked with the image of dripping, though the verse does not explain its origin. The place and its people remain held together in the count.
THE ROOT
נְטֹפָה
Nəṭōp̄āh
GROWS FROM
נטף
To drip, to drop (nāṭap̄).
Netophah is commonly connected with נָטַף (nāṭap̄), “to drip, to drop,” though the verse itself does not give an etymology. That possible echo sets the named people beside the image of drops gathered at a source, while the line preserves their place and number.
ALSO GROWS
nāṭap̄: To drip; to drop.
נָטַף
This verb supplies the action behind the name’s commonly proposed connection to the root.
nōṭēp̄: Dripping; one who drips.
נֹטֵף
This form keeps the same נ־ט־ף consonants and describes something by the root’s action.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes a people visible by holding a concrete count beside a concrete belonging.
The children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three.The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.THE THREAD
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.Here Netophah stands beside Bethlehem, and both place-names remain visible within one count. Ezra gives Netophah its own number; this verse holds the same place in a larger joined total.
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