What Does Ezra 2:4 Mean in the King James?
The children of Shephatiah, three 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 household’s name means “YHWH has judged,” so even this census line carries a name shaped by divine discernment.
THE MEANING
Restoration reaches the level of a named household and a count of lives; it is not only a sweeping idea. Shephatiah means “YHWH has judged,” so this group is named within divine discernment.
THE ROOT
שְׁפַטְיָה
Shephatyah
GROWS FROM
שפט
shaphat
To judge, decide, or govern.
Shephatiah (שְׁפַטְיָה, Shephatyah) means “YHWH has judged”: שפט (shaphat, judge or govern) names the action, and יה (Yah, a short form of יהוה, YHWH, the LORD) names its source. The census line holds a family under a name of discernment, not just an untranslated label.
ALSO GROWS
shōfēt: Judge; one who judges.
שֹׁפֵט
This form names the one who judges, echoing the root inside Shephatiah.
mishpāṭ: Judgment, justice, or ordinance.
מִשְׁפָּט
The same root describes the ordering or decision that makes a community’s life legible.
THE PATTERN
Restoration takes shape through people known and gathered by name, not only through an abstract total.
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.To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.THE THREAD
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?“Judge” here comes from שפט (shaphat, judge or govern), the same root carried in Shephatiah. The name means “YHWH has judged,” so the census’s family name echoes the root Genesis uses for the Judge of all the earth.
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