Temple servant
נְתִינִיםStrong’s H5411natin (na-tin)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natin is the Hebrew word usually translated “temple servants”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.”
Meaning
- Nethinimstemple slaves assigned to the Levites and priests for service in the sanctuary
How it's translated
- the temple servants 9
- and the temple servants 7
- temple servants 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 8
- Ezra 6
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 2:43The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
- Ezra 2:58All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
- Ezra 2:70So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 7:7And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- Ezra 8:17And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
- Ezra 8:20Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
Hebrew dictionary
נְתִינִים natin · temple servant
1) Nethinims 1a) temple slaves assigned to the Levites and priests for service in the sanctuary Aramaic equivalent: ne.tin (נְתִין "temple servant" H5412)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.