עזרא

Hebrew

Etymology

Variant of עֶזְרָה (“help, succor”)

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

עֶזְרָא • (ʿezrāʾ) m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ezra or Esdras
2. (biblical) Ezra (the fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh)
3. (biblical) Ezra (a Jewish high priest from the fifth century BC)

Derived terms

• עזרי ('ezri) (nickname)

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Ἔσδρᾱς (Ésdrās), Ἔσρᾱς (Ésrās), Ἔζδρᾱς (Ézdrās)

References

• H5830 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• עזרא on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he