Ezra 7:21
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,”
שָׁמַיִן
{the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)}
טְעֵם
a decree
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טְעֵם
properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively)
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שׂוּם
it is made
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שׂוּם
{to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)}
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כָּהֵן
priest/ the
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כָּהֵן
{one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)}
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שְׁאֵל
he will ask for/ you
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שְׁאֵל
{to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand}
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נְהַר
river/ the
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נְהַר
a river, especially the Euphrates
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עֲבַד
let it be done
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עֲבַד
to do, make, prepare, keep, etc.
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סָפֵר
the scribe of
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סָפֵר
a scribe (secular or sacred)
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דָּת
law/ the
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דָּת
{a royal edict or statute}
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עֶזְרָא
Ezra
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עֶזְרָא
Ezra, an Israelite
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גִּזְבָּר
treasurers/ the
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גִּזְבָּר
{treasurer}
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מֶלֶךְ
king/ the
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מֶלֶךְ
a king
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