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Hebrew
Etymology
Variant of עֶזְרָה (“help, succor”)
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Proper noun
עֶזְרָא • (ʿezrāʾ) m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ezra or Esdras
- (biblical) Ezra (the fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh)
- (biblical) Ezra (a Jewish high priest from the fifth century BC)
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