Ezra 8:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יַחֲזִיאֵ֑ל

Yachăzîyʼêl

H3166

“Jahaziel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 12:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2372 and H410

TWOT: None

Jahaziel = "beheld of God" - a Benjamite warrior who joined David at Ziklag - a priest in the reign of David who helped move the ark - a Kohathite Levite, 3rd son of Hebron - a Levite, son of Zechariah, of the sons of Asaph, in the reign of Jehoshaphat - an ancestor of one of the families who returned from exile 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 →

8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יַחֲזִיאֵ֑ל Jahaziel H3166 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יַחֲזִיאֵ֑ל Jahaziel H3166 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
2 adjectives
1 preposition

Repetition

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

מִבְּנֵ֥י son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 8 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.

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 8:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מִבְּנֵ֥י שְׁכַנְיָ֖ה בֶּן יַחֲזִיאֵ֑ל וְעִמּ֕וֹ שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת הַזְּכָרִֽים

Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezra 8:5 Septuagint · lemma form

ἀπό υἱός ζαθοης σεχενιας υἱός αζιηλ καί μετά αὐτός τριακόσιοι ὁ ἀρσενικός

And of the sons of Zathoes; Sechenias the son of Aziel, and with him three hundred males.

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, Whedon's Commentary on the Bible 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 8:5 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 8:5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

Ver. 5. The son of Jahaziel] The father is named, but not the son: but why, who can tell? Et patet et lucet pagina sacra. He is both well know and conspicuous by the sacred page.

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.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

5, 10. In Ezr_8:5 the Septuagint inserts Zattu (Ezr_2:8) before Shechaniah, and in Ezr_8:10 Bani (Ezr_2:10) before Shelomith. Compare, also, apocryphal 1Es_8:32; 1Es_8:34.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(5) The son of Janaziel.—Obviously a name is omitted. The LXX. have, “of the sons of Zattu, Shechaniah,” before Jahaziel.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

5. The Hebrew text gives Shechaniah as the house, but fails to give the name of its representative. ‘Shecaniah’ does not occur in the other lists as the name of a house. The text of 1 Esdr. has ‘of the sons of Zathoe, Shechenias the son of Jezelus’ (1Es_8:32). ‘Zathoe’ is the same as Zattu (Ezr_2:8). This name has most probably accidentally dropped out. We should therefore read “Of the sons of Zattu, Shechaniah the son of Jahaziel’, i.e. Shechaniah is the representative of the house of Zattu: so also the LXX. (ἀπὸ υἱῶν Ζαθόης Σεχενίας νἱὸς Ἀζιήλ).

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

Sons. Septuagint and Arabic add, "of Zathoe, Sechenias, the son of Aziel." The Syriac supplies the name of "Gabo, the son of Nahzael," which seems to have been lost. (Calmet) --- Junius translates, "of the descendants Sechenias N. son of Jahaziel."

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).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The son of Jahaziel; either his only son, or the most eminent of his sons, and therefore so called here.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

A name has fallen out either between "Shechaniah" and "the son of Jahaziel," or between "of the sons" and "of Shechaniah." The Septuagint has, "Of the sons of Zattu, Shechaniah, the son of Jahaziel." Zattu is mentioned in Ezr_2:8.

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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yachăzîyʼêl (“Jahaziel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yachăzîyʼêl carries the sense “Jahaziel.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Chronicles 12:4, which shares the word «Jahaziel», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.