26 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Nehemiah 3:26. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
וְהַ֨נְּתִינִ֔ים הָי֥וּ יֹשְׁבִ֖ים בָּעֹ֑פֶל עַ֠ד נֶ֜גֶד שַׁ֤עַר הַמַּ֙יִם֙ לַמִּזְרָ֔ח וְהַמִּגְדָּ֖ל הַיּוֹצֵֽא׃ ס
וְהַ֨נְּתִינִ֔ים
הָי֥וּ
יֹשְׁבִ֖ים
בָּעֹ֑פֶל
עַ֠ד
נֶ֜גֶד
שַׁ֤עַר
הַמַּ֨יִם֙
לַמִּזְרָ֔ח
וְהַמִּגְדָּ֖ל
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܘܢܬ̈ܢܝܐ ܕܗܘܘ ܝܬܒܝܢ ܒܦܥܠ ܥܕܡܐ ܠܬܪܥܐ ܕܡ̈ܝܐ ܠܡܕܢܚܐ ܘܡܓܕܠܐ ܕܡܦܩܢܐ
ܘܢܬ̈ܢܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܢܬܢܝܐ
- Transliteration
- wntny'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5
ܕܗܘܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܗܘܘ
- Transliteration
- dhww
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 57
ܝܬܒܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܝܬܒܝܢ
- Transliteration
- ytbyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 37
ܒܦܥܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܦܥܠ
- Transliteration
- bp'l
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܥܕܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܕܡܐ
- Transliteration
- 'dm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 606
ܠܬܪܥܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܬܪܥܐ
- Transliteration
- ltr''
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 34
ܕܡ̈ܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܝܐ
- Transliteration
- dmy'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 83
ܠܡܕܢܚܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܡܕܢܚܐ
- Transliteration
- lmdnh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 13
ܘܡܓܕܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܡܓܕܠܐ
- Transliteration
- wmgdl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5
ܕܡܦܩܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܦܩܢܐ
- Transliteration
- dmpqn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 5
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Nathinæi autem habitabant in Ophel usque contra portam aquarum ad orientem, et turrim quæ prominebat.
Nathinnei
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Nathinneus
- Transliteration
- Nathinnei
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 8
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
habitabant
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- habito
- Transliteration
- habitabant
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 650
in
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
Ofel
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Ofel
- Transliteration
- Ofel
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2
usque
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- usque
- Transliteration
- usque
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 1221
contra
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- contra
- Transliteration
- contra
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 895
portam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- porta
- Transliteration
- portam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 412
Aquarum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- aqua
- Transliteration
- Aquarum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 692
ad
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ad
- Transliteration
- ad
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 7531
orientem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- orior
- Transliteration
- orientem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 145
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
turrem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- turris
- Transliteration
- turrem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 76
quae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- quae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
prominebat
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- promineo
- Transliteration
- prominebat
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 7
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Greek LXX
alternate tradition
The current Greek Brenton source archive does not expose this as the same canonical book. Related Greek Esther/Ezra traditions are tracked under separate or alternate structures where available.
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Targum Aramaic
not in current source set
No license-clean Targum panel is currently mapped for this book in the imported public-domain source set.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Nehemiah 8:1
All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
5 relevance votesNehemiah 11:21
But the temple servants lived in Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
5 relevance votesNehemiah 8:3
He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
4 relevance votesNehemiah 12:37
By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.
4 relevance votes2 Chronicles 33:14
Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
3 relevance votesNehemiah 10:28
The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge and understanding—
2 relevance votes2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.
2 relevance votes1 Chronicles 9:2
Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
2 relevance votesNehemiah 3:27
After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
2 relevance votesNehemiah 8:16
So the people went out and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
2 relevance votes