Lexicon nethinim: temple servants Original Word: נְתִינִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: nethinim Phonetic Spelling: (naw-theen') Short Definition: servants NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom nathanDefinitiontemple servants NASB Translationtemple servants (16).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נְתִינִים noun masculine plural Nethinim (properly those given to the service of the sanctuary, as Levites are called נְתוּנִים Numbers 3:9; Numbers 8:16,19); — only 1 Chronicles 9:2 (where distinguished from priests and Levites) + 16 t. Ezra Nehemiah (often distinguished from priests, Levites and porters; Ezra 8:17 Kt has הנתונים, Qr הַנְּתִינִים), namely: Ezra 2:43,58,70 = Nehemiah 7:46; Nehemiah 7:60; Nehemiah 7:72 (so Baer, Ginsb; van d. H. Nehemiah 7:73), Ezra 7:7; Ezra 8:17,20 (appointment ascribed to David, compare 1 Chronicles 9:2), 1 Chronicles 9:20; Nehemiah 10:29; Nehemiah 11:3; living on the Ophel Nehemiah 3:26; Nehemiah 11:21; with their own overseers Nehemiah 11:21, having a house known (in part) by their name Nehemiah 3:31. — On ׳נ see further Bau Priesterthum 100, 142 f. Strong's Nethinims Or Nathuwn (Ezra 8:17) {naw-thoon'} (the proper form as passive participle), from nathan; one given, i.e. (in the plural only) the Nethinim, or Temple-servants (as given to that duty) -- Nethinims. see HEBREW nathan |
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