What Does Ezra 2:7 Mean in the King James?
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
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
Restoration takes shape by naming and counting each lineage, not by dissolving it into a crowd.
THE MEANING
Elam’s descendants are named and counted as 1,254, with their place visible within the restored whole. The count gives belonging a shape: each lineage is a distinct strand in the larger rebuilding.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A restored whole absorbs every particular lineage until it becomes anonymous. This verse preserves Elam’s distinct place within it.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, establish.
בְּנֵי means “children of” and comes from בֵּן (ben), “son” or “offspring,” which is traditionally linked to בָּנָה (banah), “build.” That connection lets the lineage read as something carried forward and built across generations: the count names a living part of the larger whole.
ALSO GROWS
banah: To build or establish.
בָּנָה
The children named here continue and build the lineage that the register counts.
binyan: Building or structure.
בִּנְיָן
The shared root connects a named lineage to the wider structure being rebuilt.
THE PATTERN
Belonging becomes visible when people are named, counted, and given a place in the whole.
Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.THE THREAD
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.Ezra’s register gives a lineage a place within the restored people; the psalm describes a person’s belonging as being born there. Together, they reveal counting as recognition of where someone belongs, not bare arithmetic.
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