Ezra 7:3
in Ezra 7the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
KJV
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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This verse in Ezra 7
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
Now after these things
on Ezra 7:1-5
Now after these things marks a silence of roughly six decades between the temple's dedication in chapter 6 and Ezra's arrival under Artaxerxes, a gap the book does not narrate though the Esther story falls inside it. Ezra's pedigree runs unbroken to Aaron the chief priest, Wesley noting that several generations are omitted for brevity and may be supplied from 1 Chronicles 6. The line matters because Ezra 2:62 has already put priests without a recorded father's house out of the priesthood, so this scribe's credentials stand beyond question before he opens his mouth.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֲמַרְיָ֥ה | ʾamaryah | Amariah | H568 → | |
| בֶן־ | ven- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עֲזַרְיָ֖ה | ʾazaryah | Azariah | H5838 → | |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מְרָיֽוֹת׃ | merayot | Meraioth | H4812 → |
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
אֲמַרְיָ֥הAmariah
ʾamaryahH568 →
בֶן־[the] son of
ven-H1121 →4930 times
עֲזַרְיָ֖הAzariah
ʾazaryahH5838 →
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
מְרָיֽוֹת׃Meraioth
merayotH4812 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.