Ezra 8:1
These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.Ezra 8:1 in the real world
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- אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּאʼArtachshashtâʼArtachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings
- יָחַשׂyâchasto enroll by pedigree
- מַלְכוּתmalkûwtha rule; concretely, a dominion
- בָּבֶלBâbelBabel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
- רֹאשׁrôʼshthe head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of
- עָלָהʻâlâhto ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses
- אָבʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.