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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Nephusim (People, perhaps from Nephus)

The margin's spelling of a family of temple servants, or Nethinim, who returned with Zerubbabel; Nehemiah calls them Nephushesim.

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The margin's spelling of a family of temple servants, or Nethinim, who returned with Zerubbabel; Nehemiah calls them Nephushesim.

Who this is

Nephusim is an alternate spelling, preserved in the margin, of Nephishesim, the ancestral head of a family of temple servants, or Nethinim, who returned from Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:50; called Nephushesim in Neh. 7:52).

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H5304

Where it appears
  • Ezra 2:50

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