What Does Ezra 2:32 Mean in the King James?
The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
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 roll call preserves identity in two forms at once: a name linked to devotion and a number too specific for anonymity.
THE MEANING
This verse keeps Harim’s descendants in view as a named household with a recorded count of 320. Their name is commonly linked to a Hebrew root for what is devoted or placed under a ban, giving this brief entry a charged undertone.
THE ROOT
חָרִם
ḥārim
GROWS FROM
חרם
ḥ-r-m
To devote or place under a ban; in some contexts, to devote to destruction.
The name Harim is commonly connected to חרם, a root whose range includes devotion and irrevocable prohibition. That gives this family name a sharper undertone than a label alone, though the verse does not tell us which shade applies here.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāram: To devote or place under a ban.
חָרַם
This verb shows the root as an action, giving Harim’s name a possible sense of devotion or being set apart.
ḥērem: A devoted thing or something placed under a ban.
חֵרֶם
This noun appears in Leviticus 27:28, where the root names what is irrevocably devoted.
THE PATTERN
Belonging is made concrete when a name and a count hold particular people in view.
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;But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.THE THREAD
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.Harim is commonly connected to חרם (ḥ-r-m), the root behind “devoted thing” and “devote” in this verse. Leviticus shows the root’s force: what is devoted is claimed irrevocably, though Ezra’s list alone does not establish that this meaning describes the household.
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