What Does Ezra 10:32 Mean in the King James?

Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

Ezra 10:32 · KJV

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 Shemariah’s name sits a whole sentence: the LORD has guarded.

THE MEANING

This verse lets a name carry a living action: Shemariah means “the LORD has guarded.” Its root holds guarding and watchfulness inside a person’s name, so the bare list contains a quiet statement of being kept.

THE ROOT

שְׁמַרְיָה

Shemaryah

GROWS FROM

שמר

Guard, keep, watch over.

“Shemariah” in this verse is Shemaryah. The name ⁨שְׁמַרְיָה⁩ (Shemaryah, “the LORD has guarded”) joins ⁨שׁמר⁩ (shamar, “guard, keep”) with ⁨יה⁩ (Yah, a short form of the divine name). Its Hebrew form carries the action of guarding inside the name itself.

ALSO GROWS

shamar: Guarded, kept, watched over.

שָׁמַר

This verb is the seed inside Shemariah’s name, giving the name its sense of being guarded.

shomer: Keeper, guard, watchman.

שֹׁמֵר

This branch names the one who keeps watch, making the guarding in Shemariah’s name active and attentive.

mishmeret: Guard, watch, charge.

מִשְׁמֶרֶת

This branch describes a duty of keeping watch, showing how the same root can name both the act and its entrusted responsibility.

THE PATTERN

Keeping is active attention that guards a person along a path and preserves what is entrusted.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23:20 · KJVThe keeper goes ahead of the person, guarding a path toward a prepared place.

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

Psalm 121:7 · KJVPreserving is expressed as guarding that continues through every form of harm.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

John 17:12 · KJVKeeping is named as watchfulness over those entrusted, with the verse also holding the loss it describes.

THE THREAD

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

Psalm 121:7 · KJV

The verb translated “preserve” comes from ⁨שׁמר⁩ (shamar, “guard, keep”), the same root carried inside ⁨שְׁמַרְיָה⁩ (Shemaryah, “the LORD has guarded”). The psalm unfolds in a sentence what this name compresses: the LORD keeps.

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