What Does Nehemiah 7:19 Mean in the King James?
The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
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
The word for “children” is linked with the verb “to build,” so this count holds a household as something built across generations.
THE MEANING
The verse places one family line within a larger people and gives its count exactly: 2,067. Read now, it lets you see belonging as both particular, a name, and shared, a place within the whole.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
benei
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
To build or construct; the word for children is traditionally linked with this root.
The word בְּנֵי (benei), “children of,” belongs to the word-family associated with בָּנָה (banah), “to build.” The count carries more than a headcount: it traces a household built through generations, with each child belonging to the line.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son, child.
בֵּן
This singular form names the family relationship gathered into the count.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes the building image concrete: the verse counts the members who give a family line its form across generations.
THE PATTERN
A household remains visible within a larger people when its members are held under a name and counted.
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.THE THREAD
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.Nehemiah names the family with בְּנֵי (benei), “children of,” and Psalm 127 uses בָּנִים (banim), “children.” The census makes a lineage countable; the psalm reveals the value carried by the same word.
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