What Does Nehemiah 7:46 Mean in the King James?
The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
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
A Nethinim is literally one of “the given ones”: beneath this terse list is the idea of people given a place within a community.
THE MEANING
You can belong to a larger whole without being erased by it: this line holds three family lines under one name and keeps each distinct. The Hebrew name Nethinim means “the given ones,” so belonging is expressed here as being placed within a people.
THE ROOT
הַנְּתִינִים
ha-netinim
GROWS FROM
נתן
Give, set, place.
The KJV keeps “Nethinims” as a label, while the Hebrew carries the sense “the given ones.” The same root can speak of giving a gift and placing someone within a community, joining what is given with where it is given a place.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This verb makes the name’s underlying sense visible: the Nethinim are “the given ones.”
mattanah: Gift or present.
מַתָּנָה
This branch shows the same root in what is given, echoing how a person can be placed within a community’s shared life.
THE PATTERN
Communities take shape through people given distinct places and gifts within a shared life.
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.THE THREAD
Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.Ezra uses the same name, “Nethinims,” and says they are “all of them … expressed by name.” The “given ones” are counted within a shared role while each person remains named.
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