One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ezra. Every Ezra in the Bible
person
Ezra
עֶזְרָא
Ezra was a priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and participated in the dedication of Jerusalem's wall.
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Nehemiah 12:1
- last named
- Nehemiah 12:33
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ezra?
Ezra, mentioned in Neh.12.1, 13, and 33, was a priest who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, during the reign of King Cyrus of Persia. He was among the first group of exiles to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple and the city (Ezr.2.1-2). Ezra is listed as the head of a priestly family (Neh.12.13), indicating his leadership role within the priestly community. He also participated in the dedication of Jerusalem's wall, where he led one of the two processions of thanksgiving on top of the wall (Neh.12.33). This Ezra should not be confused with the more prominent Ezra, the priest and scribe, who led a later group of exiles back to Jerusalem and initiated a spiritual reformation among the people.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Ezra is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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