What Does Ezra 2:18 Mean in the King James?

The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.

Ezra 2:18 · 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

Jorah’s name echoes yarah, the root behind Torah, so this bare count is carried beneath a name linked to teaching and direction.

THE MEANING

This verse holds one family in two forms at once: a shared name and a number, 112. Its compact wording keeps the family’s belonging concrete.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The idea that a counted group is anonymous gives way here to a family named and counted together.

THE ROOT

יוֹרָה

Yōrāh

GROWS FROM

ירה

⁨יָרָה⁩ (yārâ): to throw or cast; by extension, to direct or teach.

Jorah is associated with ⁨ירה⁩, the root that also gives Hebrew its word for instruction. The name above this counted family carries a trace of direction beneath the otherwise spare list.

ALSO GROWS

tôrāh: Instruction, teaching, direction.

תּוֹרָה

Torah shares the root echoed in Jorah, revealing the family name’s link to instruction and direction.

mōreh: Teacher; one who directs.

מוֹרֶה

This branch names a person who teaches or directs, making visible the same root within Jorah’s name.

THE PATTERN

A people can be held in view through both a shared belonging and a stated count.

Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

Ezra 2:1 · KJVThe people are located by community and by their own cities, holding belonging at both collective and individual scales.

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Psalm 147:4 · KJVNumber and name stay joined: the stars are counted and called by name.

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:41 · KJVA gathered community is described alongside its count of about three thousand.

THE THREAD

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:3 · KJV

Here “teach” is ⁨יָרָה⁩ (yārâ, “direct or teach”), and “law” is ⁨תּוֹרָה⁩ (tôrāh, “instruction”), both carrying the root echoed by Jorah. Isaiah opens the family name onto a language of direction and instruction.

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