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Strong's #5830 - עֶזְרָא

Transliteration

ʻEzrâʼ

Phonetics

ez-raw'

Origin

a variation of (H5833)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Ezra = “help”

1) the priest and scribe who led the reforms of the returned exiles in Jerusalem; co-worker with Nehemiah

2) a priest with Zerubbabel

3) another post-exilic Jew

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (22)

Ezra 10

Nehemiah 12

NAS (22)

Ezra 10

Nehemiah 12

HCS (21)

Ezra 9

Nehemiah 12

BSB (22)

Ezra 10

Nehemiah 12

ESV (22)

Ezra 10

Nehemiah 12

WEB (22)

Ezra 10

Nehemiah 12

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

עֶזְרָא proper name, masculine Εσρας, Εσδρας, Εζδρας;

1 Ezra Ezra 7:1,10; Ezra 10:1,2,5,6; Nehemiah 8:6; called (ה)סֹּפֵר Ezra 7:6; Nehemiah 8:1,4,5,13; Nehemiah 12:36, הַכֹּהֵן Ezra 10:10,16; Nehemiah 8:2,9, both Ezra 7:11; Nehemiah 12:26.

2 priest with Zerubbabel Nehemiah 12:1,13.

3 Nehemiah 12:33.

עֶזְרָא proper name, masculine Ezra (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Ezra 7:12,21,25.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עֶזְרָא (“help”), pr.n. Ezra

(1) the priest, and γραμματεύς, who in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus (458 b. c.) led a colony of Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem, Ezr. chap. -710 ; Neh. chap. his pedigree is given, -Ezra 7:15.

(2) one of the first colony, a cotemporary of Zerubbabel, Nehemiah 12:1, Nehemiah 12:2.

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List of Word Forms

וְעֶזְרָ֣א וְעֶזְרָ֥א ועזרא לְעֶזְרָ֔א לְעֶזְרָ֣א לְעֶזְרָ֥א לעזרא עֶזְרָ֔א עֶזְרָ֖א עֶזְרָ֗א עֶזְרָ֡א עֶזְרָ֣א עֶזְרָ֤א עֶזְרָ֨א עֶזְרָֽא׃ עֶזְרָא֙ עזרא עזרא׃ ‘ez·rā ‘ezrā ezRa lə‘ezrā lə·‘ez·rā leezRa veezRa wə‘ezrā wə·‘ez·rā