King James Version
Nehemiah 7:66 in the King James Version says “The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,” — study this verse from Nehemiah chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,”
Nehemiah 7:66 · KJV
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. the Tirshatha: or, the governor
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and two thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
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