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Ezra

The author of the book which bears his name, was of the sacerdotal family, being a direct descendant from Aaron, and succeeded Zerubbabel in the government of Judea. This book begins with the repetition of the last two verses of the second book of Chronicles, and carries the Jewish history through a period of seventy-nine years, commencing from the edict of Cyrus. Ezra is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “help; court.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5831
Hebrew
עֶזְרָא
Name meaning
help; court According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H5831

עֶזְרָא

Glosses: Ezra

Indexed occurrences: 3

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ezra

help; court

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

EZRA

the author of the book which bears his name, was of the sacerdotal family, being a direct descendant from Aaron, and succeeded Zerubbabel in the government of Judea. This book begins with the repetition of the last two verses of the second book of Chronicles, and carries the Jewish history through a period of seventy-nine years, commencing from the edict of Cyrus. The first six chapters contain an account of the return of the Jews under Zerubbabel, after the captivity of seventy years;

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Ezra

Meaning:
help; court

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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