Bible Person
Meaning: help; court · Male · 3 cross references
This Ezra entry refers to a priestly or signatory figure in Nehemiah's lists, not Ezra the scribe. He belongs to the restoration-era ordering of priests and worship leaders in Jerusalem. First appears in Neh 12:1.1
AI summary: This Ezra matters because the cross references place the name within the priestly continuity of the restored community rather than in the better-known career of Ezra the scribe. Such entries help show how many remembered leaders and houses sustained post-exilic worship beyond the most famous names. Taken together, the material presents this Ezra as a restoration-era priestly figure in Jerusalem's renewed temple life.1
Central Figure
Ezra
Meaning: help; court
A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem under Zerubabel (Neh.
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.