Hasupha

Hasupha is the head of one of the temple-servant families whose descendants returned from Babylonian exile. The name appears only in the parallel return-registers of Ezra and Nehemiah, where the sons of Hasupha are listed among the families "given [to temple service]" — the body of attendants assigned to the priests and Levites at the rebuilt house in Jerusalem. The same family is also called Hashupha.

A Nethinim family among the returning exiles

The first list places the sons of Hasupha near the head of the temple-servant register: "Those given [to temple service]: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth," (Ezr 2:43). The Nehemiah parallel matches it word for word: "Those given [to temple service]: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth," (Ne 7:46). The bracketed [to temple service] makes explicit what the Hebrew label Nethinim names — a hereditary class of attendants tied to the sanctuary's daily work — and Hasupha's family is enrolled in that class on both occasions the post-exilic community was counted.