Bible Person

Parosh

Meaning: a flea; the fruit of a moth · Male · 3 cross references

Parosh is the ancestral or house-name of a large returnee family named in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the many households whose return and later reform participation rebuild the post-exilic community. First appears in Ezra 2:3.1

AI summary: Parosh matters because the cross references place this house in both the initial return lists and the later moral reckonings of Ezra's reform. That combination shows that restoration involved not only resettlement but also painful covenant correction within real families. Taken together, the material presents Parosh as a returnee house woven into both the rebuilding and the purification of the restored people.1

Central Figure

Parosh

Meaning: a flea; the fruit of a moth