Ezra 5:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

they sent a letter to him, in which was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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שְׁלָמָ֥א

shᵉlâm

H8001

“peace · the”

Adjective, N, Common + Particle, Definite Article

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Ezra 4:17

Full BDB Definition

Origin: corresponding to H7965

TWOT: 3035a

welfare, prosperity, peace, well-being

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 →

10: words
10: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שְׁלָמָ֥א peace H8001 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שְׁלָמָ֥א peace H8001 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 nouns
3 adjectives
1 pronoun
4 particles

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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 10 Hebrew tokens and 14 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

Topical passages linked to Ezra 5:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezra 4:17 [Then] sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who dwell in Samaria, and in the rest [of the country] beyond the River: Peace, and so forth.
Daniel 3:9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
Daniel 6:21 Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

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.

Hebrew Ezra 5:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

פִּתְגָמָ֖א שְׁלַ֣חוּ עֲל֑וֹהִי וְכִדְנָה֙ כְּתִ֣יב בְּגַוֵּ֔הּ לְדָרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שְׁלָמָ֥א כֹֽלָּא

they sent a letter to him, in which was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 5:7 Septuagint · lemma form

ῥῆσις ἀποστέλλω πρός αὐτός καί ὅδε γράφω ἐν αὐτός δαρεῖος ὁ βασιλεύς εἰρήνη πᾶς

They sent an account to him, and thus it was written in it: All peace to king Darius.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on Ezra 5:7 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Ezr 5:7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.

Ver. 7. All peace] {See Trapp on "Ezr 4:17"} Peace is a complexive mercy - Pacem te poscimus omnes. It is well with bees when they make a noise in their hive; but with men when they are at quiet in their hearts, in their houses, and in the public.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

7. a letter] In Ezr_5:6 called in the Aramaic ‘iggarta’ (cf. ἀγγαρεύω), here ‘pithgama’ (cf. Ezr_4:17), the more official designation.

all peace] Literally ‘peace, the completeness or entirety’. The two words in apposition. ‘Peace in every respect.’

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.

John Gill's Exposition

They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus,.... Or this was the inscription of it:

unto Darius the king, all peace; wishing him all kind of happiness and prosperity.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

7. Written thus — “This official letter of the Persian governor is quite a model of exactness, moderation, and truth, and gives a very favourable idea of the administrative part of the Persian government.” — Kitto.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

to him Aram. עֲלוֹהִי, lit. on him.

and so was written in it and so was written in the letter.

all peace All peace shall be his.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉlâm (“peace”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “peace” (shᵉlâm) shape what this verse is saying?
Ezra 4:17 shares the word «peace» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.