What Does Nehemiah 7:8 Mean in the King James?

The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

Nehemiah 7:8 · KJV

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 Hebrew word for “children” is tied to the root of “building”: this count shows a people taking shape one household at a time.

THE MEANING

Parosh (⁨פַּרְעֹשׁ⁩, Parʿosh, “flea”) names this family, yet 2,172 descendants stand beneath that name. Your belonging can be particular and shared: a people takes shape through households that remain distinct within the whole.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that a people’s wholeness requires its smaller households to disappear: this family remains distinct in the count.

THE ROOT

בְּנֵי

bənê

GROWS FROM

בנה

b-n-h

To build, establish.

The Hebrew word for “children” is traditionally linked to ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (bānāh, “to build”). English makes the family line sound like a label; the root adds the image of a household carried forward and built through its descendants.

ALSO GROWS

bānāh: To build.

בָּנָה

It shares the root and gives “children” an echo of building a family line.

binyan: A building or structure.

בִּנְיָן

It shows the root’s movement from building to what is built: a household takes form through generations.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes shared belonging visible through named lineages and counted lives.

The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

Ezra 2:3 · KJVThis same family appears by name and number, keeping one distinct lineage visible within the returning people.

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

Numbers 1:2 · KJVThe count is organized by families and households, making the people visible through their distinct lines.

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke 12:7 · KJVThe image moves from counted households to individual lives held in view.

THE THREAD

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalm 127:1 · KJV

The Hebrew ⁨בְּנֵי⁩ (bənê, “children”) is traditionally linked to ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (bānāh, “build”), the root used for “build” here. The count of descendants opens onto a household as living structure, carried forward through the people named in it.

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