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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ezra (Man living at the time of Exile and Return)
He is not the famous scribe but a priest in Nehemiah's list of those who came back earlier under Zerubbabel, and he is named only there.
First, in plain English
He is not the famous scribe but a priest in Nehemiah's list of those who came back earlier under Zerubbabel, and he is named only there.
Worth knowing
The priest-scribe who leads a second return from exile and reads the Law aloud to a weeping crowd (Ezra 7-8, Nehemiah 8). Josephus's chapter on the Persian king Xerxes' favor toward the Jews is the political backdrop that makes Ezra's whole mission possible in the first place.
The word
H5830 · H5831
Where it appears
- Nehemiah 12:1
- Nehemiah 12:13
- Nehemiah 12:33
