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Strong's #5831 - עֶזְרָא

Transliteration
ʻEzrâʼ
Phonetics
ez-raw'
Origin
corresponding to (H5830)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
TWOT
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Ezra = “help”

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

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (3)
Ezra 3
NAS (3)
Ezra 3
HCS (3)
Ezra 3
BSB (3)
Ezra 3
ESV (3)
Ezra 3
WEB (3)
Ezra 3
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
לְעֶזְרָ֣א לעזרא עֶזְרָ֗א עֶזְרָ֨א עזרא ‘ez·rā ‘ezrā ezRa lə‘ezrā lə·‘ez·rā leezRa
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