Ezra 7:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

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אֲחִיטֽוּב

ʼĂchîyṭûwb

H285

“Ahitub”

Noun, Proper

Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 14:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H251 and H2898

TWOT: None

Ahitub = "my brother is good (goodness)" - a grandson of Eli - the father of Zadok the priest

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 אֲחִיטֽוּב Ahitub H285 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲחִיטֽוּב Ahitub H285 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בֶּן 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

Topical passages linked to Ezra 7:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 8:17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
1 Kings 2:35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 7:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן שַׁלּ֥וּם בֶּן צָד֖וֹק בֶּן אֲחִיטֽוּב

the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 7:2 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός σαλουμ υἱός σαδδουκ υἱός αχιτωβ

the son of Selum, the son of Sadduc, the son of Achitob,

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 7:2 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Ezr 7:2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

Ver. 2. The son of Shallum] See 1Ch 6:7-10. Of those two Books of Chronicles this same Ezra is held to be the penman: and it is not improbable.

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 Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 2-4. This portion of the genealogy agrees exactly with that of Jehozadak in 1Ch_6:3-15, excepting in the omission, which has been already noticed, of six names between Azariah and Meraioth. We may gather from 1Ch_9:11 that a Meraioth is also omitted between the Zadok and Ahitub of ver. 2.

EZRA"S JOURNEY FROM BABYLON TO JERUSALEM, WITH DATES (Xerxes 7:6-10). In introducing himself, Ezra seems to regard it 25 of primary importance to state two things

(1) who he was, and

(2) what place he had in a history of which the main object is to give an account of the return of Israel from captivity. In connection with the former point, he gives, first of all, his genealogy; and, secondly, the account of himself contained in vers. 6 and 10. He describes himself as "a ready scribe one who "had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it," and also "to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." In connection with the latter, he is careful to put before us at once the fact that he too, like Zerubbabel, "went up from Babylon" to Jerusalem by the permission of the Persian king, and, like Zerubbabel, was accompanied by priests, Levites, both singers and porters, Nethinim, and a number of the people (ver. 7). He adds an exact statement as to the date of both his departure and arrival, very natural in one who is his own biographer, and very interesting to the general historian. He also, without any parade of religious sentiment, acknowledges the baud of God as directing, helping, and sustaining him in all his proceedings, ascribing to the Divine favour, especially, Artaxerxes allowance of his journey, and his safe accomplishment of it within a moderate space of time (vers. 6, 9).

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂchîyṭûwb (“Ahitub”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Ahitub” (ʼĂchîyṭûwb) shape what this verse is saying?
How does 1 Samuel 14:3, which shares the word «Ahitub», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
“son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.