What Does Ezra 2:14 Mean in the King James?
The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
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 name comes before the number, so the tally stays attached to belonging.
THE MEANING
This line holds belonging and number together: a people are identified through Bigvai, then counted. Your life can be part of a larger continuity without disappearing into its total.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being counted makes you interchangeable. Here, the family name remains attached to the number.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
benei
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, establish; the word for son is traditionally associated with building.
The Hebrew for “children” is formed from ben, “son,” and is traditionally linked with banah, “build.” The line names the people through family before giving their number, so the tally also evokes a household built and carried through its descendants.
ALSO GROWS
ben: son, descendant
בֵּן
The plural construct benei identifies this group by its relation to Bigvai.
banah: build, establish
בָּנָה
Its traditional association with ben suggests a family taking shape and continuing through its descendants.
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
This related form gives the root’s building image a concrete shape: a family line is a structure carried by many people.
THE PATTERN
A count can preserve identity when it keeps names and belonging attached to the number.
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.THE THREAD
The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.The same Hebrew wording, “children of Bigvai,” appears here with a different total: 2,067 rather than 2,056. The family identity remains while the recorded count shifts, making the number a detail within the lineage rather than its definition.
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