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Lexicon :: Strong's H2568 - ḥāmēš

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חָמֵשׁ
Transliteration
ḥāmēš
Pronunciation
khaw-maysh'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive numeral
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 686a

Strong’s Definitions

חָמֵשׁ châmêsh, khaw-maysh'; masculine חֲמִשָּׁה chămishshâh; a primitive numeral; five:—fif(-teen), fifth, five (× apiece).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 343x

The KJV translates Strong's H2568 in the following manner: five (300x), fifteenth (with H6240) (16x), fifteen (with H6240) (15x), fifth (6x), fifteen (with H7657) (3x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 343x
The KJV translates Strong's H2568 in the following manner: five (300x), fifteenth (with H6240) (16x), fifteen (with H6240) (15x), fifth (6x), fifteen (with H7657) (3x), variant (1x).

  1. five

    1. five (cardinal number)

    2. a multiple of five (with another number)

    3. fifth (ordinal number)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָמֵשׁ châmêsh, khaw-maysh'; masculine חֲמִשָּׁה chămishshâh; a primitive numeral; five:—fif(-teen), fifth, five (× apiece).
STRONGS H2568: Abbreviations
חָמֵשׁ, חֲמִשָּׁה 342 noun masculine and feminine five (Late Hebrew id.; id.; Aramaic חֲמֵשׁ, חַמְשָׁא, Wemfo, aXtwemfo; Phoenician חמשת; Palmyrene חמשא, with masculine noun, ReckendZMG 1888, 408; Assyrian ḫamšu, ḫamiltu Dl§ 75; Ethiopic ኀምስ፡ ኀምስቱ፡ Arabic خَمْسً, خَمْسَةً Sabean & Liḥyânian חֿמס DHMZMG xxix, 613; Epigr. Denkm. 71, 73); — masculine (with noun feminine) absolute חָמֵשׁ Genesis 5:6 + 94 times + Ezekiel 40:30 (strike out Greek Version of the LXXB Hi-Sm Co; Co strike out also in Ezekiel 40:25; Ezekiel 40:29; Ezekiel 40:33; Ezekiel 40:36) + Ezekiel 45:3 Kt (where read feminine with Qr); construct חֲמֵשׁ Genesis 5:10 + 67 times + Ezekiel 48:16 Kt; feminine (with noun masculine) absolute חֲמִשָּׁה see LagBN 80 Genesis 18:28 + 139 times (including Ezekiel 8:16 strike out B Co and others); construct חֲמֵשֶׁת Numbers 3:47 (twice in verse) + 26 times; — on plural חֲמִשִּׁים fifty, see below; — five, in Hexateuch chiefly P; —
1. without other numeral:
a. חָמֵשׁ before feminine plural noun Genesis 43:34 + 35 times; before collective noun צאֹן ח׳ 1 Samuel 25:18; see also בָּאַמָּה ח׳ five in cubit(s)＝five cubits 1 Kings 7:23; 1 Chronicles 11:23; 2 Chronicles 4:2; after noun (late) 2 Kings 8:16 (בִּשְׁנַת חָמֵשׁ לְיוֺרָם＝in the fifth year) + 6 times Chronicles; no noun expressed 1 Kings 7:39 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 7:49 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 3:20; 2 Chronicles 4:7 (twice in verse).
b. חֲמִשָּׁה before masculine plural noun Genesis 47:2 + 18 times; after noun Exodus 36:38 + 36 times Numbers (all P); no noun expressed Genesis 14:9 (only here with article) + 20 times.
c. חֲמֵשׁ before noun (usually defined; except מֵאוֺת, אֲלָפִים, see 3, 4) Exodus 26:3, 9; Exodus 36:10, 16 + Ezekiel 42:16 אַמּוֺת ח׳ Kt, but Qr מאות ח׳, see below.
d. חֲמֵשֶׁת חַמְּלָכִים Joshua 10:5 + 5 times; הָאֲנָשִׁים ח׳ Judges 18:7, 14, 17; שׁקלים ח׳ Numbers 18:16; also, distributive, שְׁקָלִים ח׳ ח׳ Numbers 3:47; הַסְּרָנִים ח׳ Joshua 13:3; Judges 3:3; 1 Samuel 6:18; בני מ׳ ח׳ 2 Samuel 21:8.
e.＝ordinal, בִּשְׁנַת חָמֵשׁ ליורם 2 Kings 8:16 the fifth (year) of Joram; בַּחֲמִשָּׁה לַחֹדֶשׁ on the fifth (day) of the month Ezekiel 1:1, 2; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 33:21; (so also 15th, 25th, etc.)
2. ח׳ combined with עשׂר, עשׂרה ten＝fifteen:
a. חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה (with noun feminine) Genesis 5:10; Genesis 7:20; Exodus 27:14, 15; Exodus 38:14, 15; 2 Kings 14:17, 23; 2 Kings 20:6; 2 Chronicles 15:10; 25:25; Isaiah 38:5.
b. חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר (with noun masculine),
(1) after noun Esther 9:21;
(2) before noun Exodus 16:1 (= ordinal fifteenth, so Leviticus 23:6 +) Hosea 3:2 +.
c. חֲמֵשֶׁת עָשָׂר before noun 2 Samuel 19:18 +.
d. חֲמֵשֶׁת עָשָׂר, without noun＝ordinal fifteenth 1 Chronicles 24:14 +4 times + Ezekiel 45:12 (read חֲמִשִּׁים A Hi Co).
3. חֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת＝500 Genesis 5:30, 32 + 49 times + Ezekiel 42:16 Qr.
4. חֲמֵשֶׁת אֲלָפִים＝5000 Numbers 31:32; Joshua 8:12; Judges 20:45; 1 Samuel 17:5; Ezekiel 45:6; Ezekiel 48:15; 1 Chronicles 29:7; 2 Chronicles 35:9; Ezra 1:11; Ezra 2:69; — in 25,000, 35,000 etc. חֲמִשָּׁה (usually without א׳) precedes the 20,000, 30,000, etc.
5. with other numerals:
a. חָמֵשׁ before larger numeral:
(1) noun repeated Genesis 5:6 + 4 times;
(2) noun with 2nd number only, Genesis 5:17 + 8 times + Ezekiel 45:3 Kt;
(3) noun with בְּ with 2nd number Ezekiel 40:21 + 2 times
b. חָמֵשׁ after larger number:
(1) noun repeated Genesis 25:7;
(2) noun following ח׳ (only) Judges 14:10 + (especially in expressions of age and duration);
(3) noun before both numbers, stative absolute, 2 Chronicles 3:15; stative construct 2 Chronicles 15:19.
c. no noun expressed, ח׳ between other number, e.g. ושׁבעים שֵׁשׁ מאות ח׳ Numbers 31:37.
d. חֲמִשָּׁה before larger number, noun following larger number Numbers 1:25 + 22 times
e. ח׳ follows, and
(1) is followed by noun Judges 20:35 + 7 times;
(2) noun precedes both 1 Kings 7:3; Jeremiah 52:30.
f. ח׳ precedes, no noun expressed 1 Kings 5:12.
g. ח׳ follows, no noun expressed Genesis 18:28 +.
h. no noun expressed ח׳ between other number Exodus 38:28; Ezra 2:5.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:6; 5:6; 5:10; 5:10; 5:17; 5:30; 5:32; 7:20; 14:9; 18:28; 18:28; 25:7; 43:34; 47:2

Exodus

16:1; 26:3; 26:9; 27:14; 27:15; 36:10; 36:16; 36:38; 38:14; 38:15; 38:28

Leviticus

23:6

Numbers

1:25; 3:47; 3:47; 18:16; 31:32; 31:37

Joshua

8:12; 10:5; 13:3

Judges

3:3; 14:10; 18:7; 18:14; 18:17; 20:35; 20:45

1 Samuel

6:18; 17:5; 25:18

2 Samuel

19:18; 21:8

1 Kings

5:12; 7:3; 7:23; 7:39; 7:49

2 Kings

8:16; 8:16; 14:17; 14:23; 20:6

1 Chronicles

3:20; 11:23; 24:14; 29:7

2 Chronicles

3:15; 4:2; 4:7; 15:10; 15:19; 25:25; 35:9

Ezra

1:11; 2:5; 2:69

Esther

9:21

Isaiah

38:5

Jeremiah

52:30

Ezekiel

1:1; 1:2; 8:1; 8:16; 33:21; 40:21; 40:25; 40:29; 40:30; 40:33; 40:36; 42:16; 42:16; 45:3; 45:3; 45:6; 45:12; 48:15; 48:16

Hosea

3:2

H2568

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Strong's Number H2568 matches the Hebrew חָמֵשׁ (ḥāmēš),
which occurs 344 times in 272 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 6 (2Ki 13:19–Ezr 2:66)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five H2568 or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 - And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen H2568 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth H2568 year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - Five H2568 and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2 - Twenty and five H2568 years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five H2568 thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - And I will add unto thy days fifteen H2568 years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five H2568 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 - Jehoiakim was twenty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five H2568 men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:4 - And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:6 - And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five H2568 of them in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:20 - And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five H2568 cities:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42 - And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five H2568 hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:3 - And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: H2568 all of them chief men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 - And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; H2568 heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five H2568 cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:14 - The fifteenth H2568 to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:22 - The fifteenth H2568 to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:7 - And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five H2568 thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:11 - And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five H2568 cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five H2568 cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:12 - And one wing of the other cherub was five H2568 cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five H2568 cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:15 - Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five H2568 cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five H2568 cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2 - Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five H2568 cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6 - He made also ten lavers, and put five H2568 on the right hand, and five H2568 on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:7 - And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five H2568 on the right hand, and five H2568 on the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:8 - He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five H2568 on the right side, and five H2568 on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five H2568 cubits long, and five H2568 cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five H2568 hundred thousand chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10 - So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth H2568 year of the reign of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19 - And there was no more war unto the five H2568 and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:31 - And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five H2568 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:1 - Amaziah was twenty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:25 - And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen H2568 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13 - And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five H2568 hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:1 - Jotham was twenty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:8 - He was five H2568 and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:1 - Hezekiah began to reign when he was five H2568 and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five H2568 years in Jerusalem:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five H2568 thousand small cattle, and five H2568 hundred oxen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the vessels of gold and of silver were five H2568 thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:5 - The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:8 - The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:20 - The children of Gibbar, ninety and five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:33 - The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:34 - The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:66

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:66 - Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five; H2568

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