Ezra 7:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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זְרַֽחְיָ֥ה

Zᵉrachyâh

H2228

“Zerahiah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2225 and H3050

TWOT: None

Zerahiah = "Jehovah has risen" - a priest, son of Uzzi, and ancestor of Ezra the scribe - father of Elihoenai of the sons of Pahath-moab, whose descendants returned from the captivity with Ezra

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 זְרַֽחְיָ֥ה Zerahiah H2228 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

זְרַֽחְיָ֥ה Zerahiah H2228 occurs in 4 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

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Hebrew Ezra 7:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן זְרַֽחְיָ֥ה בֶן עֻזִּ֖י בֶּן בֻּקִּֽי

the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 7:4 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ζαραια υἱός σαουια υἱός βοκκι

the son of Zaraia, the son of Ozias, the son of Bokki,

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 7:4 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 7:4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

Ver. 4. The son of Zerahiah, &c.] These might be (as one saith of Jesse the father of David) Viri boni et honesti, minus tamen clari, good men, but obscure.

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.

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 Zᵉrachyâh (“Zerahiah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Zᵉrachyâh carries the sense “Zerahiah.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Chronicles 6:6, which shares the word «Zerahiah», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?

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.