Ezra 2:3
in Ezra 2the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two.
KJV
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
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This verse in Ezra 2
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThe children of Parosh - Where the word children is found in this table, prefixed to the name of a man, it signifies the descendants of that person, as from Ezra 2:3-21. Where it is found prefixed to a place, town, etc., it signifies the inhabitants of that place, as from Ezr 2:21-35.
This site's exposition
The children of Parosh, two thousand
on Ezra 2:3-35
Verses 3 to 35 name family after family by ancestor or by hometown, the pattern Adam Clarke marks in his own notation: children of a person names descendants, children of a place names its former inhabitants. Every count stands as its own witness, since nothing else is known of most of these households beyond the number that came home. John Gill sets the list beside Nehemiah's parallel roll in his seventh chapter and finds the two registers agree in substance though not in every digit, one story kept by two hands.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
[Those] who came these people of the province, in the beginning, when they went into exile from Israel to Babylon with Zerubbabel etc.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| פַרְעֹ֔שׁ | farosh | Parosh | H6551 → | 6 times |
| אַלְפַּ֕יִם | ʾalpayim | two thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| מֵאָ֖ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שִׁבְעִ֥ים | shivim | seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ ס | ushenayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
פַרְעֹ֔שׁParosh
faroshH6551 →6 times
אַלְפַּ֕יִםtwo thousand
ʾalpayimH505 →505 times
מֵאָ֖הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy
shivimH7657 →91 times
וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two
ushenayimH8147 →768 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezra 10:25And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 7:8
the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 7:8
Through
Nehemiah 7:8the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
it leads to
- Nehemiah 10:14
And the leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 8:3
from the descendants of David, Hattush of the descendants of Shecaniah; from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered 150 men;
- Nehemiah 10:25
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
- Nehemiah 10:14
About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.