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# עֶזְרָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5830

**Ezra** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ezra [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5830/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶזְרָא: n.pr.m. Ezra [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5830/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Εσρας, Εσδρας, Εζδρας; Ezra Ezr 7:1, 10; 10:1, 2, 5, 6; Ne 8:6; called (ה)סֹּפֵר Ezr 7:6 Ne 8:1, 4, 5, 13; 12:36, הַכֹּהֵן Ezr 10:10, 16; Ne 8:2, 9, both Ezr 7:11; Ne 12:26. priest with Zerub. Ne 12:1, 13. Ne 12:33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ezra (22).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.33/#tree)

וַעֲזַרְיָ֥ה עֶזְרָ֖א וּמְשֻׁלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Azariah Ezra and Meshullam

*JPS 1917:* and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

[Nehemiah 12:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.13/#tree)

לְעֶזְרָ֣א מְשֻׁלָּ֔ם לַאֲמַרְיָ֖ה יְהוֹחָנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* of Ezra Meshullam of Amariah Jehohanan

*JPS 1917:* of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5830/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).