Ezra 8:1
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Now these are the chief of families, and the genealogy of them, who came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

the chief

Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 9:34 The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 24:31 And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.

1 Chronicles 26:32 And his brethren of stronger age, two thousand seven hundred chiefs of families. And king David made them rulers over the Rubenites and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses, for all the service of God, and the king.

2 Chronicles 26:12 And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant men were two thousand six hundred.

Nehemiah 7:70,71 And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work. Athersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests. . . .

genealogy

Ezra 2:62 These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and they were cast out of the priesthood.

1 Chronicles 4:33 And all their villages round about these cities as far as Baal. This was their habitation, and the distribution of their dwellings.

1 Chronicles 9:1 And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

them that went up

Ezra 7:7,13 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the children of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. . . .

Context
The Exiles who Returned with Ezra
1Now these are the chief of families, and the genealogy of them, who came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.2Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattus.…
Cross References
Ezra 7:7
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the children of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezra 7:28
And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his counsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me, gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Ezra 8:2
Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattus.

Lexicon
These
וְאֵ֛לֶּה (wə·’êl·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 428: These, those

are the family
אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם (’ă·ḇō·ṯê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

heads
רָאשֵׁ֥י (rā·šê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head

and genealogical records
וְהִתְיַחְשָׂ֑ם (wə·hiṯ·yaḥ·śām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3187: To enroll oneself or be enrolled by genealogy

of those who returned
הָעֹלִ֣ים (hā·‘ō·lîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

with me
עִמִּ֗י (‘im·mî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with

from Babylon
מִבָּבֶֽל׃ (mib·bā·ḇel)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city

during the reign
בְּמַלְכ֛וּת (bə·mal·ḵūṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4438: Royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom

of King
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king

Artaxerxes:
אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא (’ar·taḥ·šast)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 783: Artaxerxes -- a son and successor of Xerxes, king of Persia


Additional Translations
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes: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.

Now these are the heads of their fathers houses , and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

And these are the heads of their families, the leaders that went up with me in the reign of Arthasastha the king of Babylon.

And these are the chief fathers, and their genealogy, who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

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.

Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

And these are heads of their fathers, and the genealogy of those going up with me, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king, from Babylon.
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