Ezra Definition

ĕzrə
noun
A masculine name.
Webster's New World
A Hebrew scribe, prophet, and religious reformer of the 5th cent. b.c.
Webster's New World
The book telling of his life and teachings.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Book of Ezra
pronoun
A male given name of biblical origin.
Wiktionary

(biblical) The fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.

Wiktionary

A Jewish high priest from the fifth century.

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Origin of Ezra

  • Hebrew ‘ezrā’ a nickname perhaps for ‘azrî’ēl God is my help ʕḏr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Hebrew עזרא (“God helps”).

    From Wiktionary

Ezra Sentence Examples

  • He was commissioned to inquire into the religious condition of the land and to disseminate the teaching of the Law to which he had devoted himself (Ezra vii.).

  • Indeed, we have a categorical statement to this effect in 4 Ezra xiv.

  • The historical interval that separated these two events is treated as naturally dividing itself into three great periods, - those of Moses, David and Ezra.

  • It was the conception of Ezekiel which permanently influenced the citizens of the new Jerusalem, and took final shape in the institutions of Ezra.

  • The Pentateuch (or Hexateuch) was finally completed in its present form at some time before 400 B.C. The latest parts of the Old Testament are the books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (c. 330 B.C.), Ecclesiastes and Esther (3rd century) and Daniel, composed either in the 3rd century or according to some views as late as the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (c. 168 B.C.).

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