Ezra 7:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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אֲבִישׁ֗וּעַ

ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ

H50

“Abishua”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H7771

TWOT: None

Abishua = "my father is rescue (safety), or is opulence" - son of Phinehas, grandson of Aaron

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
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲבִישׁ֗וּעַ Abishua H50 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲבִישׁ֗וּעַ Abishua H50 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

10 nouns

Repetition

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

בֶּן son H1121 ×4

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 12 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 7:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 6:25 Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
Leviticus 10:6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Leviticus 10:12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
Leviticus 10:16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
Numbers 3:32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 20:25–28 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
Numbers 25:7–13 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;
Numbers 27:2 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

Numbers 31:6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
Numbers 31:31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 31:54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
Joshua 14:1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
Joshua 22:13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
Joshua 22:31 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: now have you delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.
Joshua 24:33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Judges 20:28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.

1 Chronicles 6:4 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
1 Chronicles 6:50–52 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
1 Chronicles 24:1–6 Thes were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2 Chronicles 19:11 Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the good.
2 Chronicles 26:20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
Psalms 106:30–31 Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, So the plague was stopped.
Hebrews 5:4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezra 7:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן אֲבִישׁ֗וּעַ בֶּן פִּֽינְחָס֙ בֶּן אֶלְעָזָ֔ר בֶּן אַהֲרֹ֥ן הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הָרֹֽאשׁ

the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 7:5 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός αβισουε υἱός φινεες υἱός ελεαζαρ υἱός ἀαρών ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ πρῶτος

the son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the first priest.

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.

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 7:5 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 7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

Ver. 5. The son of Aaron the chief priest] Ezra then was ex genere pontificio (as those, Act 4:5) non tamen pontifex. The title of chief priest is never given unto him.

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Ezra deduceth his kindred, till he cometh to Aaron, to prove that he came of him.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

5. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar] his religious zeal (Num_25:7-11) was celebrated in the records and songs of Israel (Psa_106:30). As High-priest he appears probably on two occasions Jos_22:13; Jos_22:30; Jos_22:32; Jdg_20:28.

Aaron the chief priest] Literally the ‘head-priest’ (hak-kohen harôsh). By this title the High-priest was sometimes designated in writings of the Captivity and post-Captivity periods, e.g. 2Ch_19:11; 2Ch_24:11; 2Ch_26:20; 2Ch_31:10. The earliest instances are 2Ki_25:18; Jer_52:24. Before the period of the Captivity he is generally called “the priest”. The name High-priest (literally ‘the great priest’) only rarely occurs in the Pentateuch, Lev_21:10; Num_35:25; Num_35:28, though more frequently in books of late date, e.g. 2Ki_12:10.

LXX. ‘the first priest’ (τοῦ ἱέρεως τοῦ πρώτου). Vulg. ‘sacerdotis ab initio’.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Beginning of the Jewish republic.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Lesson kit

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Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ (“Abishua”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ carries the sense “Abishua.” How does it shape the verse?
1 Chronicles 6:4 shares the word «Abishua» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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 Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.