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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5830

עֶזְרָא

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Ezra

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻEzrâʼ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5830is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5830

Ezra, an Israelite

The King James renders it: Ezra.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Ezra is rendered "Ezra". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 7:1Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

Ezra 7:1עֶזְרָא֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twelve of the word's twenty-two uses are in Nehemiah.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Ezra15
  • and Ezra3
  • to Ezra3
  • of Ezra1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

עֶזְרָהezrahhelpUses26

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • עֶזְרָא֙4
  • וְעֶזְרָ֥א2
  • לְעֶזְרָ֣א2
  • עֶזְרָ֣א2
  • עֶזְרָ֤א2
  • עֶזְרָ֖א2
  • וְעֶזְרָ֣א1
  • לְעֶזְרָ֥א1
  • לְעֶזְרָ֔א1
  • עֶזְרָ֔א1
  • עֶזְרָ֡א1
  • עֶזְרָ֗א1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)15HNpm
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npm
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm

Ezra

ten uses
  • Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

    Ezra 7:1

    • עֶזְרָא֙ʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

    Ezra 7:6

    • עֶזְרָא֙ʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

    Ezra 7:10

    • עֶזְרָא֙ʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

    Ezra 7:11

    • לְעֶזְרָ֥אleezra'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ezra
  • While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

    Ezra 10:1

    • עֶזְרָא֙ʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

    Ezra 10:2

    • לְעֶזְרָ֔אleezra'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ezra
  • So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.

    Ezra 10:5

    • עֶזְרָ֡אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

    Ezra 10:6

    • עֶזְרָ֗אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

    Ezra 10:10

    • עֶזְרָ֤אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,

    Ezra 10:16

    • עֶזְרָ֨אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra

Nehemiah

twelve uses
  • At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

    Nehemiah 8:1

    • לְעֶזְרָ֣אleezra'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ezra
  • On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.

    Nehemiah 8:2

    • עֶזְרָ֣אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

    Nehemiah 8:4

    • עֶזְרָ֣אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Ezra opened the book in full view of all the people, since he was standing above them all, and as he opened it, all the people stood up.

    Nehemiah 8:5

    • עֶזְרָ֤אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

    Nehemiah 8:6

    • עֶזְרָ֔אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

    Nehemiah 8:9

    • וְעֶזְרָ֣אveezra'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ezra
  • On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.

    Nehemiah 8:13

    • עֶזְרָ֖אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

    Nehemiah 12:1

    • עֶזְרָֽא׃ʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

    Nehemiah 12:13

    • לְעֶזְרָ֣אleezra'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Ezra
  • They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.

    Nehemiah 12:26

    • וְעֶזְרָ֥אveezra'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ezra
  • along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,

    Nehemiah 12:33

    • עֶזְרָ֖אʾezra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ezra
  • and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.

    Nehemiah 12:36

    • וְעֶזְרָ֥אveezra'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ezra

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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