Ezra 8:34
in Ezra 8Everything was verified by number and weight, and the total weight was recorded at that time.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.
KJV
By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
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This verse in Ezra 8
Commentary
5 notes on this verseBy number and by weight of everyone,.... They were delivered in by tale and weight, which exactly agreed to the number and weight in which they received them: and all the weight was written at that time; an account was taken in writing, and laid up, that it might not only be known hereafter what freewill offerings had been made in Babylon, but that it might be a voucher for the fidelity and integrity of those that brought them, should it ever be called in question.
This site's exposition
abode there three days
on Ezra 8:32-34
The company reaches Jerusalem and rests three days before any business is done, the same three days the muster at Ahava had once spent waiting on a shortage of Levites, now spent recovering from the road instead. On the fourth day the silver, the gold and the vessels are weighed again, this time by Meremoth the priest with Eleazar, Jozabad and Noadiah standing as witnesses, closing the charge Ezra had given at verse twenty-nine. Every article is checked by number and by weight, and the total is written a second time, so the treasure that left Babylon under one inventory arrives under a matching one.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
And every weight was recorded in that time. For the priests in the temple record all the weight of silver and gold, and of the vessels offered to the Lord, just as diligent teachers examine the lives of those under them, and discern by careful …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
It is a great ease to one's mind to be discharged from a trust, and a great honour to one's name to be able to make it appear that it has been faithfully discharged. That his companions were devout. As soon as they came to be near the altar they thought themselves obliged to offer sacrifice, whatever they had done in Babylon,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The returned exiles offered burnt offerings, and Ezra delivered the royal commission to the satraps and inferior magistrates; while the Levitical portion of them lent all the assistance they could in performing the additional work which the arrival of so many new worshippers occasioned.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּמִסְפָּ֥ר | bemispar | by number | H4557 → | 134 times |
| בְּמִשְׁקָ֖ל | bemishkal | by weight | H4948 → | 49 times |
| לַכֹּ֑ל | lakol | for <the> everything | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| וַיִּכָּתֵ֥ב | vaiyikatev | and it was written down | H3789 → | 224 times |
| כָּֽל־ | kal- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַמִּשְׁקָ֖ל | hamishkal | the weight | H4948 → | 49 times |
| בָּעֵ֥ת | baet | at the time | H6256 → | 296 times |
| הַהִֽיא׃ פ | hahi' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
בְּמִסְפָּ֥רby number
bemisparH4557 →134 times
בְּמִשְׁקָ֖לby weight
bemishkalH4948 →49 times
לַכֹּ֑לfor <the> everything
lakolH3605 →5413 times
וַיִּכָּתֵ֥בand it was written down
vaiyikatevH3789 →224 times
כָּֽל־all
kal-H3605 →5413 times
הַמִּשְׁקָ֖לthe weight
hamishkalH4948 →49 times
בָּעֵ֥תat the time
baetH6256 →296 times
הַהִֽיא׃ פ<the> that
hahi'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Ezra
This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.