What Does Ezra 10:21 Mean in the King James?
And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The roster’s names turn a list into a confession: YHWH works, hears, gives life, and is strength.
THE MEANING
These names carry testimony about the LORD’s work, hearing, life, and strength. The record lets divine presence appear inside ordinary human identity: what is done, heard, animated, and sustained belongs in the story of life now.
THE ROOT
שָׁמַע
shamaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
hear, listen, heed
Shemaiah (שְׁמַעְיָה, Shemaʿyah) means “YHWH has heard.” The name turns hearing into a testimony about YHWH, while the same root also gives words for what is heard and carried onward.
ALSO GROWS
shamaʿ: hear, listen
שָׁמַע
This is the root inside Shemaiah: the name attributes hearing to YHWH.
shemuʿah: report, tidings
שְׁמוּעָה
What is heard can become a report that travels; the root joins hearing with testimony.
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʿaseh
GROWS FROM
עשה
do, make
Maaseiah (מַעֲשֵׂיָה, Maʿaseyah) means “work of YHWH.” The name carries action back to its source, so “work” is not an abstract task here but something the name places in relation to YHWH.
ALSO GROWS
ʿasah: do, make
עָשָׂה
The verb beneath “work” shows action as the seed of the name.
maʿaseh: deed, work
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun names the result of doing and gives Maaseiah its “work” element.
עֹז
ʿoz
GROWS FROM
עזז
be strong, prevail
Uzziah (עֻזִּיָּהוּ, ʿUzziyah) means “YHWH is my strength.” The root’s branches include strength and strong refuge, so strength is not only force but also a place of support.
ALSO GROWS
ʿaz: strong, fierce
עַז
The adjective shows the quality carried by the root of strength.
maʿoz: stronghold, refuge
מָעוֹז
The same strength-root can name shelter, opening the name’s claim toward security as well as power.
THE PATTERN
Scriptural names can carry a spoken account of the nature or work attached to a life.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.Shemaiah (שְׁמַעְיָה, Shemaʿyah, “YHWH has heard”) carries שָׁמַע (shamaʿ, “hear”), the root behind the psalm’s “hearest.” The psalm makes that name’s confession audible as a present description of God: prayer comes to the one who hears.
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