What Does Ezra 2:9 Mean in the King James?

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

Ezra 2:9 · 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 census gives this household a number, while “Zaccai” carries the Hebrew word-family of cleanness and clarity.

THE MEANING

A household is not swallowed by the whole: this line keeps its name beside its count. Your place among people can be particular and shared, visible without being reduced to a number.

THE ROOT

זַכַּי

Zakkay

GROWS FROM

זכה

Be clean or clear; in some forms, be vindicated.

“Zaccai” in this verse is Zakkay. Zakkay belongs to the ⁨זכה⁩ word-family, which carries the sense of being clean or clear. This line holds the household’s name and its count together, letting lineage and name-nature remain visible side by side.

ALSO GROWS

Zakkay: A personal name commonly connected with cleanness or innocence.

זַכַּי

This is the name preserved in the census, carrying the root’s clean or clear sense into the household’s identity.

yizkeh: A verb form from ⁨זכה⁩, meaning to be clean or clear.

יִזְכֶּה

This form appears in Job 15:14, making the root’s sense audible beyond the name itself.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes a people visible by preserving both shared belonging and particular count.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

Nehemiah 7:14 · KJVThe same household is named and counted, showing how a people remains legible through its families.

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:41 · KJVA growing assembly is given a count, holding its shared belonging in view.

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke 12:7 · KJVThe count reaches the particular person, where even what seems uncountable is numbered.

THE THREAD

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:14 · KJV

Job uses ⁨יִזְכֶּה⁩ (yizkeh, “be clean”) from the same ⁨זכה⁩ root linked to Zaccai. The name’s clean or clear word-family thus reaches beyond identification into a question of human cleanness.

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