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   Ezra
   Ezra was a Hebrew scribe. He was exiled in Babylon, and led a party of fellow exiles back to Palestine around 488 BC.
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   Ezra
   In the Old Testament, a Hebrew scribe who was allowed by Artaxerxes, king of Persia (probably Artaxerxes I, 464-423 BC), to lead his people back to Jerusalem from Babylon in 458 BC. He...
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   Ezra
   Book of Ezra noun an Old Testament book telling of a rabbi`s efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity
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   Ezra
   noun a Jewish priest and scribe sent by the Persian king to restore Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem
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   Ezra
   `Ezra` was a Jewish priestly scribe who is thought to have led about 5,000 Israelite exiles living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem in 459 BCE or 428 BCE or 397 BCE. Ezra reconstituted the dispersed Jewish community on the basis of the Torah and with an emphasis on the law. According to the Hebrew Bible, Ezra resolved the identity threat arisen by the intermarriage between Jews and foreigners and provided a definite reading of the Torah...
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   Ezra
   religious leader of the Jews who returned from exile in Babylon, reformer who reconstituted the Jewish community on the basis of the Torah (Law, or ... [13 related articles]
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   Ezra
   Ezra is a Hebrew boy name. The meaning of the name is `Help` Where is it used? The name Ezra is mainly used In the bible, English and In Jewish.How do they say it elsewhere? Esdras ( In the bible) Ezar ( In Other languages) Ezra appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 342. In the last 128 years Ezra has occupied a spot In the top 1000 without
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   Ezra
   Ezra, in the Bible. 1. Central figure of the book of Ezra. 2. Priest who returned with Zerubbabel.
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   Ezra
   Ezra, book of the Bible, combined with Nehemiah in the Septuagint to form the book 2 Esdras. In the Vulgate, Ezra and Nehemiah are called 1 and 2 Esdras respectively. Ezra, like Nehemiah, is the work of the Chronicler (see Chronicles) and narrates the history of the Jews from 538 B.C. to c.458 B.C. ...
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