Ezra meaning

ĕz'rə
The book telling of his life and teachings.
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A Hebrew high priest of the fifth century bc who led many Jews back to Jerusalem after their Babylonian exile.
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A masculine name.
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A Hebrew scribe, prophet, and religious reformer of the 5th cent. b.c.
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(biblical) The fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.
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A Jewish high priest from the fifth century.
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A male given name of biblical origin.
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Origin of ezra

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

Sentence Examples

  • 23-26, the age is given as twenty-five, but twenty became usual and recurs in Ezra iii.

  • 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.).

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

  • - The biblical history for the Persian period is contained in a new source - the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, whose standpoint and period are that of Chronicles, with which they are closely joined.

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