בְּנֵי בַצְל֥וּת בְּנֵי מְחִידָ֖א בְּנֵ֥י חַרְשָֽׁא
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 2:52
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 2:52 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Bazluth, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the descendants of Bazluth, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha,
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King James Version Public Domain
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Bazluth, the sonnes of Mehida, the sonnes of Harsha,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The children of Besluth, the children of Mahida, the children of Harsa,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Bazluth, sons of Mehida, sons of Harsha,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
sons of Bazluth, sons of Mehida, sons of Harsha,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha;
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בַצְל֥וּת
Batslûwth
H1213
“Bazlith”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Bazlith or Bazluth = "asking"
- a head of a family of exiles returning with Zerubbabel
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בַצְל֥וּת Batslûwth H1213 “Bazlith” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מְחִידָ֖א Mᵉchîydâʼ H4240 “Mehida” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חַרְשָֽׁא Charshâʼ H2797 “Harsha” Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בַצְל֥וּת Bazlith H1213 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בַצְל֥וּת Bazlith H1213 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנֵי son H1121 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 6 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Ezra 2:52 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 7:54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
υἱός βασαλωθ υἱός μαουδα υἱός αρησα
the children of Basaloth, the children of Mauda, the children of Arsa,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
In the Septuagint this is one book — Esdras B (2 Esdras): Ezra is chapters 1–10, Nehemiah 11–23.
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Batslûwth (“Bazlith”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Bazlith” (Batslûwth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 3 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does Nehemiah 7:54, which shares the word «Bazlith», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- 3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Ezra 2:52 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.