What Does Ezra 2:48 Mean in the King James?
The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
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
Even a verse made only of names keeps a people from becoming an abstraction: each group remains distinct because it is named.
THE MEANING
You meet belonging here through particular names: Rezin, Nekoda, and Gazzam. The verse gives no deeds or explanations; it keeps each group distinct by naming it. Nekoda may echo a Hebrew root meaning “to mark or spot,” though the name’s derivation is uncertain.
THE ROOT
נְקוֹדָא
Nəqōdā
GROWS FROM
נקד
To mark, punctuate, or be spotted.
Nekoda may carry an echo of נקד (n-q-d, mark or spot), though the name’s etymology is uncertain. The root links a mark that distinguishes something from its surroundings with the act of marking itself.
ALSO GROWS
nāqōd: Speckled or spotted.
נָקֹד
This biblical form shares the root’s consonants and gives the possible name echo a sense of visible distinctness.
niqqud: Pointing; dots or marks, including vowel points.
נִקּוּד
This later Hebrew branch uses the same consonants for small marks that make distinctions visible.
THE PATTERN
A people becomes visible through the names of its constituent families and persons.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.THE THREAD
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.The word “speckled” corresponds to נָקֹד (nāqōd, spotted), sharing the consonants נקד with the possible root echo in Nekoda. The connection suggests marked distinctness in the name, while its etymology remains uncertain.
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