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# נְטֹפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5199

**Netophah** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Netophah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5199/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְטֹפָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5199/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Judah (dropping, dripping, cf. LewySem. Fremdwörter 40);—Ezr 2:22 = Ne 7:26; 𝔊 Νετωφα, 𝔊L Νετωφατι (as adj. gent. Ne 12:28).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Netophah (1); of Netophah (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.22/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֥י נְטֹפָ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* the.men of.Netophah fifty and six

*JPS 1917:* The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

[Nehemiah 7:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.26/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֤י בֵֽית־לֶ֙חֶם֙בֵֽית־לֶ֙חֶם֙ וּנְטֹפָ֔ה מֵאָ֖ה שְׁמֹנִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of Bethlehem and Netophah one.hundred eighty and eight

*JPS 1917:* The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5199/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).