The Meaning of Ezra 10:44 Explained

Ezra 10:44

KJV: All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

YLT: all these have taken strange women, and there are of them women -- who adopt sons.

Darby: All these had taken foreign wives; and there were among them wives who had had children.

ASV: All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

All these had taken  {08675;05375:08802} strange  wives:  and [some] of them had  wives  by whom they had  children. 

What does Ezra 10:44 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Ezra 10

1  Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages
6  Ezra assembles the people
9  The people repent, and promise amendment
15  The care to perform it
18  The names of them which had married strange wives

What do the individual words in Ezra 10:44 mean?

All these - had taken wives pagan and had [some] of them wives and [by whom] they had children -
כָּל־ אֵ֕לֶּה [נשאי‪‬‪‬] (נָשְׂא֖וּ) נָשִׁ֣ים נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת וְיֵ֣שׁ מֵהֶ֣ם נָשִׁ֔ים וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ בָּנִֽים פ

אֵ֕לֶּה  these 
Parse: Pronoun, common plural
Root: אֵהֶל 
Sense: these.
[נשאי‪‬‪‬]  - 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
(נָשְׂא֖וּ)  had  taken 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: נָשָׂא  
Sense: to lift, bear up, carry, take.
נָשִׁ֣ים  wives 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת  pagan 
Parse: Adjective, feminine plural
Root: נָכְרִי  
Sense: foreign, alien.
וְיֵ֣שׁ  and  had 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: יֵשׁ  
Sense: being, existence, substance, there is or are.
מֵהֶ֣ם  [some]  of  them 
Parse: Preposition-m, Pronoun, third person masculine plural
Root: הֵם 
Sense: they, these, the same, who.
נָשִׁ֔ים  wives 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ  and  [by  whom]  they  had 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: שׂוּמָה 
Sense: to put, place, set, appoint, make.
בָּנִֽים  children 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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