What Does Ezra 2:52 Mean?
The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,THE KEY
The repeated “children of” makes lineage sound like building: each named group belongs to something carried forward.
THE MEANING
Your place is not erased by obscurity. In the repeated “children of,” each named group remains connected to a line that carries belonging forward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that only prominent people belong in the story: even brief, easily passed-over names are kept in lineage and record.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bĕnê
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
Build, build up, establish
Hebrew בְּנֵי (bĕnê, “children of”) is the plural construct of בֵּן (ben, “son” or “child”), traditionally linked with בָּנָה (banah, “to build”). That word family lets lineage register as something built across generations: Bazluth, Mehida, and Harsha remain held as descendants, not reduced to anonymous numbers.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son, child
בֵּן
This is the singular noun behind the repeated phrase; each group is identified through relationship and lineage.
banah: To build, build up
בָּנָה
Traditionally linked with ben, it gives the genealogy an image of a household built through successive generations.
THE PATTERN
A people are kept in view when names are counted, written, and remembered.
The LORD counts when he writes up the peoples; this one is born there. Selah.Then those who stand in awe of the LORD spoke, each one to his neighbor, and the LORD bent his ear and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written before his face for those in awe of the LORD, who reckon his name.Yet do not rejoice in this, that the breaths submit to you, but rejoice instead that your names have been written in the heavens.THE THREAD
Look, children are the LORD's portion; and the fruit of the womb is a wage.Ezra repeats בְּנֵי (bĕnê, “children of”) to keep three lines attached to their descendants. Psalm 127 uses בָּנִים (bānîm, “children”), letting the same word family show lineage as inheritance carried forward.
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