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Nehemiah 7:62

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the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 642 in all.

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 62

The success of one good design for God and our generation should encourage us to proceed and form some other; Nehemiah did so, having fortified Jerusalem with gates and walls, his next care is, I. To see the city well kept (Neh 7:1-4). II. To see it well peopled, in order to which he here reviews and calls over the register of the children of the captivity, the families that returned at first, and records it (v. 5-73). It is the same, in effect, with that which we had, Ezra 2. What use he made of it we shall find afterwards, when he brought one of ten to live in Jerusalem, Neh 11:1.

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Strong's Concordancev. 62

בֵּן (bên, H1121) — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative… דְּלָיָה (Dᵉlâyâh, H1806) — Delajah, the name of five Israelites טוֹבִיָּה (Ṭôwbîyâh, H2900) — Tobijah, the name of three Israelites and of one Samaritan נְקוֹדָא (Nᵉqôwdâʼ, H5353) — Nekoda, a Temple-servant שֵׁשׁ (shêsh, H8337) — six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth מֵאָה (mêʼâh, H3967) — a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction אַרְבָּעִים (ʼarbâʻîym, H705) — forty שְׁנַיִם (shᵉnayim, H8147) — two; also (as ordinal) twofold

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