Nethinim
Nethinim
Nethinim[1] is the name given to what is said to be the hereditary temple servants meaning "those set apart", to assist the work of the sanctuary for the Levites who were responsible for the social safety net of God's intentional community. For societies to remain free and preserve the way of liberty the social bonds of the people needed to be nurtured to to keep Israel healthy.
Nethinim[1] is from the word nathan[2] נָתַן defined "to give, put, set". Listen to Exodus 7 study to find out more about the NunTavNun audio podcast from 20230107.
Nethinim (נְתִינִים) is from the Canaanite verb Netinim meaning to give. Nethinim as we see in the King James is one of those transliterated words, appearing also as Nathinites or Nathineans, rather than being translated.
Nethinim (נְתִינִים) was descriptive term that became the name given to assistants in ancient Jerusalem. These temple assistance were assisting the Levites who were meant to be the stones of the altars of Moses and Abraham and eventually the living stones of the living temple of God.
The term was applied originally in the Book of Joshua but we commonly see in the Book of Ezra, and equated with the "Servants of Solomon" and may have descended from non-Israelites.
There were Jews who made endless geneologies[3] important and devised at least 10 genealogical classes.[4]
The real genealogy[5] that should concern us is about the faith of Abraham which is the genealogy of the spirit as children born again of God.
Nethinim Appears
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims <05411>.
- Ezra 2:43 The Nethinims <05411>: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
- Ezra 2:58 All the Nethinims <05411>, and the children of Solomon’s servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.
- Ezra 2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims <05411>, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 7:7 And 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 <05411>, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- Ezra 8:17 And 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 <05411> <05411>, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
- Ezra 8:20 Also of the Nethinims <05411>, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims <05411>: all of them were expressed by name.
- Nehemiah 3:26 Moreover the Nethinims <05411> dwelt in Ophel, unto [the place] over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
- Nehemiah 3:31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims <05411>, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
- Ezra 7:24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims <05412 נְתִין Nëthiyn>, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose<07412> toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
- Nehemiah 7:46 The Nethinims <05411>: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
- Nehemiah 7:60 All the Nethinims <05411>, and the children of Solomon’s servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.
- Nehemiah 7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims <05411>, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities.
- Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims <05411>, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
- Nehemiah 11:3 Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims <05411>, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
- Nehemiah 11:21 But the Nethinims <05411> dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa [were] over the Nethinims <05411>.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 05411 נָתִין Nathiyn NunTavYodNun [naw-theen’] or נתון Nathuwn NunTavVavNun (#Ezra 8:17) [naw-thoon’(] the proper form, as pass. participle) or (plural) נתינים from 05414 נָתַן nathan "to give, put, set"; n m p; [BDB-682a] [{See TWOT on 1443 @@ "1443a" }] AV-Nethinims 18; 18
- ↑ 05414 נָתַן nathan [naw-than’] a primitive root NunTavNun; v; [BDB-678a] [{See TWOT on 1443 }] AV-give 1078, put 191, deliver 174, made 107, set 99, up 26, lay 22, grant 21, suffer 18, yield 15, bring 15, cause 13, utter 12, laid 11, send 11, recompense 11, appoint 10, shew 7, misc 167; 2008
- 1) to give, put, set
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
- 1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
- 1a3) to make, constitute
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
- 1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
- 1c) (Hophal)
- 1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
- 1c2) to be put upon
- 1a) (Qal)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- 1) to give, put, set
- ↑ Endless genealogies and other fables
- 1 Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [so do].
- Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
- Ezra 2:62 These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy(03187 הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים hammiṯyaḥśîm), but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Nehemiah 7:64 These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy(03187 הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים hammiṯyaḥśîm) , but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- ↑ These genealogies (yuhasin) described in the Mishnah ranked one group above another which crept in forms of racism. The shetukim had unknown paternity is unknown, while assufim were foundlings, and the natin which were the result of illicit unions, among others.
- ↑ 03187 ^שׂחי^ yachas YodChetShin \@yaw-khas’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 862} AV-reckoned by genealogy 12, genealogy 6, number … genealogy 2; 20
- 1) (Hithpael) to reckon genealogically, enrol on a genealogy, enrol, be enrolled
- י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)