What Does Ezra 2:27 Mean in the King James?
The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
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
What is hidden can still be named and counted: Michmas’s likely sense of “stored away” sits beside the exact number of its people.
THE MEANING
What seems hidden is still brought into view: the verse holds a place-name and its people together in one count. Michmas is commonly connected to a Hebrew root meaning “to store away” or “conceal,” though that name origin is uncertain.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What is hidden or easily overlooked has no place in the record.
THE ROOT
מִכְמָס
Mikmas
GROWS FROM
כָּמַס
kamas
Possibly “to store away” or “to conceal”; the place name’s derivation is uncertain.
“Michmas” in this verse is Mikmas. The place-name is commonly linked to כָּמַס (kamas), “to store away” or “conceal,” though the connection is uncertain. That possibility makes the line’s movement striking: a name associated with what is hidden stands beside a precise count, bringing the tucked-away into view.
ALSO GROWS
kamas: To store away or conceal.
כָּמַס
This proposed root gives Michmas the sense of something kept out of sight.
Mikmas: A place-name commonly understood as “hidden” or “stored away.”
מִכְמָס
The name’s possible sense meets the count directly: the group is named and made visible.
THE PATTERN
Naming and counting hold the particular within the whole.
The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.THE THREAD
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.Psalm 147 holds number and naming in one movement, as Ezra holds Michmas’s name beside its count. The number does not dissolve the particular; the name keeps it visible.
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