What Does Ezra 2:50 Mean in the King James?
The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
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
This list keeps even small communities visible through the names their children carry.
THE MEANING
The verse holds three communities in view through the names their children carry. It speaks to you of belonging that continues across generations without losing its particular names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that only prominent people belong in the record: these named communities remain in view.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, establish.
The phrase בְּנֵי (bənê), “children of,” comes from בֵּן (ben), “son” or “child,” linked to בָּנָה (banah), “to build.” That connection lets lineage suggest a structure carried forward through generations, while the repeated phrase keeps each community distinct.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son, child.
בֵּן
Its plural construct, בְּנֵי (bənê), names each group through its line of belonging.
banah: To build, establish.
בָּנָה
Its link with “child” gives the family word an echo of a people being built and continued.
THE PATTERN
A people remains visible through its names and generations.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.Psalm 127:3 uses בָּנִים (banim), “children,” from the same בנה root carried in Ezra’s בְּנֵי (bənê), “children of.” Ezra shows children carrying a community’s name; the Psalm opens that same word toward the value of the children themselves.
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