OET interlinear NEH 11:20

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וּ⁠שְׁאָ֨ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל

(Some words not found in UHB: and,the_rest_of Yisrael the,priests the,Levites in=all towns_of Yehuda (a)_man on,his_own_of,inheritance )

Here the list refers to all of the Israelites by something associated with them, the name of their ancestor, Israel. Alternate translation: [all the other the Israelites]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

בְּ⁠כָל־עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה אִ֖ישׁ בְּ⁠נַחֲלָתֽ⁠וֹ

(Some words not found in UHB: and,the_rest_of Yisrael the,priests the,Levites in=all towns_of Yehuda (a)_man on,his_own_of,inheritance )

In this context, a man means “each person,” and as in 11:3, it may be understood to indicate “each family.” Alternate translation: [continued to live in all the other cities of Judah, each family on its own ancestral land]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

אִ֖ישׁ בְּ⁠נַחֲלָתֽ⁠וֹ

(a)_man (Some words not found in UHB: and,the_rest_of Yisrael the,priests the,Levites in=all towns_of Yehuda (a)_man on,his_own_of,inheritance )

The abstract noun inheritance refers to the land that was passed down through the generations in each Israelite family. The Levites did not have territory of their own, but they had some towns and surrounding pasturelands as their property. Alternate translation: [each family on its own ancestral land]