Atlas Biblica

    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 and scribe who led a group of Jewish exiles back to Jerusalem and played a key role in the spiritual reformation of the people.

    verses
    22
    first named
    Ezra 7:1
    last named
    Nehemiah 12:36
    period
    Exile and Return
    tribe
    Levi

    Description

    Who was Ezra?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Ezra was a prominent Jewish priest and scribe who lived during the Persian period. He was a descendant of Aaron, the first high priest of Israel (Ezr.7.1-5). Ezra was known for his devotion to the study and teaching of the Law of Moses (Ezr.7.6, 10). He led a group of Jewish exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes of Persia (Ezr.7.7-8). Upon arriving in Jerusalem, Ezra discovered that many of the Jews, including priests and Levites, had intermarried with the pagan peoples of the land (Ezr.9.1-2). Ezra prayed and confessed the sins of the people, leading to a spiritual reformation and the dissolution of the mixed marriages (Ezra 10). Ezra also played a significant role in teaching the Law to the people and leading them in a covenant renewal ceremony (Nehemiah 8). He worked closely with Nehemiah, the governor of Judah, in rebuilding Jerusalem and restoring the spiritual life of the Jewish community (Neh.12.26, 36).

    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.

    How the graph connects Ezra 10 of 15 entities the graph connects to Ezra, in one group: events 10. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Israel3 events · 2,578 versesDavid1 event · 964 versesJerusalem5 events · 888 versesLevi4 events · 329 versesSolomon1 event · 272 versesBabylon3 events · 268 versesMen1 event · 244 versesRam2 events · 62 versesLamb2 events · 46 versesBull2 events · 33 versesEzra

    The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.

    Child of

    Sibling of

    Stands in the same events as

    and 37 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Ezra happens All 4 places the claims about Ezra reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Jerusalem, Babylon, Fountain_Gate, Water_Gate. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Ezra there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.JerusalemBabylonFountain_Gate
    Exile and ReturnAll 4 places the claims about Ezra reach

    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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 22 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSEZRA–NEHEMIAH22 VERSES50 books and 763 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 22 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSEZRA–NEHEMIAH22 VERSES50 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Ezra is named in 22 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 22, across 2 books.

    1. Ezra13 verses

      7:17:67:107:117:127:217:2510:110:210:510:610:1010:16

    2. Nehemiah9 verses

      8:18:28:48:58:68:98:1312:2612:36

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via JehozadakJoshuaHigh priest during the rebuilding of the templevia ZerahiahMeraiothA priest in the lineage of Eleazar.via ZerahiahUzziHigh priest in the line of Eleazarvia SeraiahAzariahGrandfather of Ezra, descended from High Priestsvia SeraiahHilkiahThe high priest who discovered the Book of the Law.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of EzraEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on