What Does Ezra 10:27 Mean in the King James?
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
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
Inside this stark reckoning, the name Zabad carries the root-sense “bestowed,” preserving a person’s identity within the family record.
THE MEANING
The verse keeps a communal reckoning personal: six men appear by name within Zattu’s family line. Their names belong to the same painful record as wives being sent away, so the consequences remain attached to particular people.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a communal decision can be treated as faceless: the verse records the people bound to its consequences by name.
THE ROOT
זָבָד
zāḇāḏ
GROWS FROM
זבד
To bestow or endow.
“Zabad” in this verse is zāḇāḏ. The name carries the sense of something bestowed. That root appears in a verse where Leah says, “God hath endued me,” keeping the language of giving inside this list of named people.
ALSO GROWS
zāḇad: To bestow or endow.
זָבַד
This is the verbal seed carried in Zabad’s name.
zebed: A gift or endowment.
זֶבֶד
In Genesis 30:20, this noun appears beside the verb “endued,” making the root’s gift-language visible.
מַתַּנְיָה
Mattanyah
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
Mattaniah means “gift of Yah,” joining the language of giving to the divine name. Though the verse offers no gloss, the name itself carries a meaning rooted in giving.
ALSO GROWS
nātan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This verb is the root beneath the giving-language in Mattaniah’s name.
mattan: Gift.
מַתָּן
This related noun makes the “gift” within Mattaniah’s name explicit.
THE PATTERN
Communal accounts preserve particular people by naming them within the whole.
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:THE THREAD
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.The Hebrew verb translated “endued” shares the זבד root carried in Zabad’s name. Genesis makes the root’s language of bestowal plain, revealing a layer held inside the name in Ezra.
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