What Does Ezra 2:3 Mean in the King James?
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy 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
The counted multitude is named with a word rooted in building: this is a people pictured as a household growing through generations.
THE MEANING
This verse shows belonging carried in a household name and made visible among a people. The number 2,172 stands beside Parosh, so the count remains attached to a family line rather than leaving the people anonymous.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A count reduces people to anonymous units; here, the number stays attached to Parosh’s family name.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
benei
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, establish.
בְּנֵי (benei, “sons” or “children”) belongs to the root בנה (banah, “build”): the family word sits in the same root family as building. The verse presents the count as a lineage carried forward, a household taking shape across generations.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son, child.
בֵּן
The singular form names the descendant whose line continues the household.
banah: Build, establish.
בָּנָה
This shared root makes the family line sound like a household being built through its children.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
The related word for a built structure echoes the way a family line gives a people continuity.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes a people visible by tracing belonging through household lines.
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;Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;THE THREAD
Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.The word בְּנֵי (benei, “children”) in Ezra shares the root בנה (banah, “build”) with “build up” in Deuteronomy. There, building a brother’s house means sustaining the family line; here, the children gathered under Parosh’s name make that line visible.
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