Nehemiah 3:26
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And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.

Nethinims

Nehemiah 7:46-56 The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight. . . .

Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.

1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their cities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathineans.

Ezra 2:43-58 The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, . . .

dwelt, etc.

Nehemiah 3:27 After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from the great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.

Nehemiah 11:21 And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of the Nathinites.

2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

2 Chronicles 33:14 After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the gate round about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he appointed captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:

Nehemiah 8:1,3 And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. . . .

Nehemiah 12:37 And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the opposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,

Context
The Builders of the Walls
25Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the bending and the tower, which lieth out from the king's high house, that is, in the court of the prison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos. 26And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.27After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from the great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Nehemiah 7:46
The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.

Nehemiah 8:1
And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

Nehemiah 11:21
And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of the Nathinites.

Nehemiah 12:37
And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the opposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,

Lexicon
and the temple servants
וְהַ֨נְּתִינִ֔ים (wə·han·nə·ṯî·nîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5411: The Nethinim, Temple-servants

living
יֹשְׁבִ֖ים (yō·šə·ḇîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

on [the hill of] Ophel
בָּעֹ֑פֶל (bā·‘ō·p̄el)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6077: Ophel -- a fortified mound or hill in Jerusalem

made repairs opposite
נֶ֜גֶד (ne·ḡeḏ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

the Water
הַמַּ֙יִם֙ (ham·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

Gate
שַׁ֤עַר (ša·‘ar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8179: An opening, door, gate

toward the east
לַמִּזְרָ֔ח (lam·miz·rāḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4217: Place of sunrise, the east

and the tower
וְהַמִּגְדָּ֖ל (wə·ham·miḡ·dāl)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4026: A tower, a rostrum, a, bed of flowers

that juts out.
הַיּוֹצֵֽא׃ (hay·yō·w·ṣê)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim


Additional Translations
and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.Moreover the Nethinims dwelled in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lies out.

(Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that standeth out.)

And the Nathinim dwelt in Ophal, as far as the garden of the water-gate eastward, and there is the projecting tower.

(Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, even over against the water-gate toward the east, and the tower which lies out.)

(Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that standeth out.)

Moreover, the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, to the place over against the water-gate towards the east, and the projecting tower.

(Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

And the Nethinim have been dwelling in Ophel, unto over-against the water-gate at the east, and the tower that goeth out.
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