Ezra 3:9
Jeshua <03442> [Jeshua.]
Not Jeshua the high-priest, before mentioned, but another Jeshua, a Levite, mentioned in the parallel passage.
Yehudah <03063> [Judah]
Hodaviah, [H“wdavyƒh <\\See definition 01938\\>,] is called Hodevah, [H“wdevƒh <\\See definition 01937\\>,] by the elision of [Y“wd,] {yood,} and was probably named Judah, from the word having the same signification.
[Hodaviah.]
[Hodevah.]
<0259> [together. Heb. as one.]
Ezra 6:14
elders <07868> [And the elders.]
prophesying <05017> [through.]
brought ... to completion by <03635 04481> [finished it.]
by ............ command <04481 02942> [according.]
command .......... command <02941 02942> [commandment. Chal. decree. Cyrus.]
Artaxerxes <0783> [Artaxerxes.]
This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed [Makrocheir,] or Longimanus, or in Persian, {Ardsheer deeraz dest,} "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, A.M. 3540, B.C. 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition.
Ezra 9:12
give ... daughters ............ daughters <05414 01323> [give not.]
seek ... peace <01875 07965> [nor seek their peace.]
strong <02388> [that ye may.]
eat <0398> [and eat.]
inheritance <03423> [and leave it.]
