What Does Ezra 2:19 Mean in the King James?
The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
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
Restoration is built family by family: even a census preserves a household’s place in the whole.
THE MEANING
Hashum carries the traditional name sense “wealthy”; here, the household’s fullness appears as 223 people held within the returning community. Your belonging remains visible within a larger people: a family line has a name and a place in the count. The record makes the community’s restoration concrete, household by household.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a person or family disappears into a crowd: this record keeps one household visible within a much larger people.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
benei
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, establish.
The Hebrew word for “children” belongs to a word family linked with building a household. English can make “children” sound like an age category; the root connection reveals descendants as the people through whom a household continues to be built.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son, child.
בֵּן
This singular form shows the family member contained in the verse’s collective “children.”
banah: Build, establish.
בָּנָה
The verb opens the household-building sense carried by the word family.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
This noun makes the building image concrete: the counted descendants are part of a household’s continuing structure.
THE PATTERN
A people becomes visible as belonging when its members are gathered, named, and counted.
And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.THE THREAD
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.Ezra names Hashum’s children as a household line; Psalm 127 uses the same Hebrew word family for “children,” linked with the root meaning “build.” The census shows that household continuing within the wider people.
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