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Ezra (Biblical figure)

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Personal name headingEzra (Biblical figure)
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Variant(s)Esdra (Biblical figure)
Esdras (Biblical figure)
Esras (Biblical figure)
Esrei (Biblical figure)
Esri (Biblical figure)
Ezdras (Biblical figure)
Ezrah (Biblical figure)
Ezri (Biblical figure)
Iezraa (Biblical figure)
ʻUzayr (Biblical figure)
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עזרא הסופר
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Old catalog hdg.: Ezra.
Found inCortese, E. Da Mosè a Esdra, c1985: t.p. (Esdra)
Webster's biog. dict. (Ezra; Hebrew scribe and priest of the 5th cent. B.C., Greek form of name: Esdras; book of the Bible attributed to him)
LC data base, 6-11-86 (hdg.: Ezra)
New Cath. encyc., 1981 (Ezra; ʻEzrāʼ (late-Hebr. or Aramaic); in Greek as ʼEz(d)ras or ʼEs(d)ra(s); led in restoration of the Jewish commun. in Palestine after the Babylonian Exile)
Encyc. Judaica, 1971 (Ezra; ʻEzra [in Hebr.]; ʻUzayr; priest and scribe)
Encyc. Americana, 1975 (Ezra; priest and scholar)
Encyc. Britannica, 1982 (Ezra; fl. 5th-4th cent. B.C., Babylon and Jerusalem; priest and scribe)
Interp. dict. of the Bible, c1962 (Ezra; ʻEzra [in Hebr.]; Esras, Esdras, Ezdras, Ezrah, Esr(e)i, Ezri, Iezraa; priest who came to Jerusalem from Babylon)