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Ezra 2

Ezra 2:62 KJV (With Strong’s)

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These sought
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
their register
kathab (Hebrew #3791)
something written, i.e. a writing, record or book
KJV usage: register, scripture, writing.
Pronounce: kaw-thawb'
Origin: from 3789
among those that were reckoned by genealogy
yachas (Hebrew #3187)
to sprout; used only as denominative from 3188; to enroll by pedigree
KJV usage: (number after, number throughout the) genealogy (to be reckoned), be reckoned by genealogies.
Pronounce: yaw-khas'
Origin: a primitive root
, buts they were not found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
: therefore χwere they, as polluted
ga'al (Hebrew #1351)
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Pronounce: gaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating)
, put from the priesthood
khunnah (Hebrew #3550)
priesthood
KJV usage: priesthood, priest's office.
Pronounce: keh-hoon-naw'
Origin: from 3547
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Num. 3:10• 10And Aaron and his sons shalt thou appoint that they may attend to their priest's office; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death. (Num. 3:10)
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they were polluted from the priesthood.

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Genealogy,
Priest; Priesthood

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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therefore.
Lev. 21:21‑23• 21No man of the seed of Aaron the priest that hath defect shall come near to present Jehovah's offerings by fire: he hath a defect; he shall not come near to present the bread of his God.
 22The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat;
 23only he shall not come in unto the veil, nor shall he draw near unto the altar; for he hath a defect: that he profane not my sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them. (Lev. 21:21‑23)
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Num. 3:10• 10And Aaron and his sons shalt thou appoint that they may attend to their priest's office; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death. (Num. 3:10)
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Num. 16:40• 40as a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron come near to burn incense before Jehovah, that he be not as Korah, and as his band,--as Jehovah had said to him through Moses. (Num. 16:40)
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Num. 18:7• 7But thou and thy sons with thee shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerneth the altar, and for that which is inside the veil; and ye shall perform the service: I give you your priesthood as a service of gift, and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death. (Num. 18:7)
were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
Heb. theywere polluted from the priesthood.
Ezek. 44:10‑14• 10But the Levites who went away far from me, when Israel went astray, going astray from me after their idols, they shall even bear their iniquity;
 11but they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and doing the service of the house: they shall slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
 12Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and were unto the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, that they shall bear their iniquity.
 13And they shall not draw near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to draw near to any of my holy things, even to the most holy; but they shall bear their confusion, and their abominations which they have committed.
 14And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. (Ezek. 44:10‑14)
• If any could not show their genealogy they had no claim to take part in the work to which they had been called; and in the case of the priests the consequence was still more grave. These —if they could not find their register—were, as polluted, put from the priesthood. They were not told that they were not priests; the ground taken was that their claim was not proved. (“Ezra 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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These sought their genealogical register, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.