Ezra 7:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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מְרָיֽוֹת

Mᵉrâyôwth

H4812

“Meraioth”

Noun, Proper

Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4811

TWOT: None

Meraioth = "rebellious" - grandfather of Ahitub, descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and the head of a priestly house - son of Ahitub, father of Zadok, descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and the head of a priestly house - head of a family of priests represented by Helkai in the time of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua

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 מְרָיֽוֹת Meraioth H4812 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מְרָיֽוֹת Meraioth H4812 occurs in 7 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Ezra 7:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן אֲמַרְיָ֥ה בֶן עֲזַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן מְרָיֽוֹת

the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 7:3 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός σαμαρια υἱός εσρια υἱός μαρερωθ

the son of Samarias, the son of Esria, the son of Mareoth,

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 7:3 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 7:3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

Ver. 3. The son of Meraioth] Here is a great leap: six of Ezra’s ancestors (likely for brevity sake) being overskipped.

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Ezr 7:3. The son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth — There are six generations omitted between Azariah and Meraioth, as before some were omitted between Seraiah and Ezra, which are to be supplied out of 1Ch 6:7, &c.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 Mᵉrâyôwth (“Meraioth”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Meraioth” (Mᵉrâyôwth) shape what this verse is saying?
1 Chronicles 6:6 shares the word «Meraioth» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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.