What Does Ezra 2:52 Mean in the King James?

The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Ezra 2:52 · KJV

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 repeated “children of” makes lineage sound like building: each named group belongs to something carried forward.

THE MEANING

Your place is not erased by obscurity. In the repeated “children of,” each named group remains connected to a line that carries belonging forward.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It loosens the belief that only prominent people belong in the story: even brief, easily passed-over names are kept in lineage and record.

THE ROOT

בְּנֵי

bĕnê

GROWS FROM

בנה

b-n-h

Build, build up, establish

Hebrew ⁨בְּנֵי⁩ (bĕnê, “children of”) is the plural construct of ⁨בֵּן⁩ (ben, “son” or “child”), traditionally linked with ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (banah, “to build”). That word family lets lineage register as something built across generations: Bazluth, Mehida, and Harsha remain held as descendants, not reduced to anonymous numbers.

ALSO GROWS

ben: Son, child

בֵּן

This is the singular noun behind the repeated phrase; each group is identified through relationship and lineage.

banah: To build, build up

בָּנָה

Traditionally linked with ben, it gives the genealogy an image of a household built through successive generations.

THE PATTERN

A people are kept in view when names are counted, written, and remembered.

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

Psalm 87:6 · KJVEach person is counted in the record, making belonging visible one life at a time.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

Malachi 3:16 · KJVWhat could pass unnoticed is heard and preserved in a written remembrance.

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Luke 10:20 · KJVThe verse locates a person’s deepest belonging in the fact that their name is held in the record.

THE THREAD

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127:3 · KJV

Ezra repeats ⁨בְּנֵי⁩ (bĕnê, “children of”) to keep three lines attached to their descendants. Psalm 127 uses ⁨בָּנִים⁩ (bānîm, “children”), letting the same word family show lineage as inheritance carried forward.

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