ʼezrâch — H249

Definition

masculine noun

a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons)

1. a native (one rising from the soil)
1. of man, native Israelites
2. of tree, native (to Israel)

Usually translated as

born, country, bay tree, homeborn, of the

Origin

from H2224 (in the sense of springing up)

• Derived from Zârach (H2224)

Occurrences

ʼezrâch occurs 17 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (3), Leviticus (7), Numbers (4), Joshua (1), Psalms (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Exodus 12:19 — Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born (וּבְאֶזְרַ֥ח) in the land.
• Exodus 12:48 — And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in (כְּאֶזְרַ֣ח) the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
• Exodus 12:49 — One law shall be to him that is homeborn (לָֽאֶזְרָ֑ח), and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
• Leviticus 16:29 — And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country (הָֽאֶזְרָ֔ח), or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
• Leviticus 17:15 — And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country (בָּאֶזְרָ֖ח), or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
• Leviticus 18:26 — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation (הָֽאֶזְרָ֔ח), nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
• Leviticus 19:34 — But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among (כְּאֶזְרָ֣ח) you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
• Leviticus 23:42 — Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born (הָֽאֶזְרָח֙) shall dwell in booths:
• Leviticus 24:16 — And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land (כָּֽאֶזְרָ֔ח), when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
• Leviticus 24:22 — Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country (כָּאֶזְרָ֖ח): for I am the LORD your God.
• Numbers 9:14 — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born (וּלְאֶזְרַ֥ח) in the land.
• Numbers 15:13 — All that are born of the country (הָאֶזְרָ֥ח) shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Numbers 15:29 — Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born (הָֽאֶזְרָח֙) among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
• Numbers 15:30 — But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land (הָֽאֶזְרָח֙), or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• Joshua 8:33 — And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them (כָּֽאֶזְרָ֔ח); half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
• Psalms 37:35 — I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree (כְּאֶזְרָ֥ח).
• Ezekiel 47:22 — And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country (כְּאֶזְרָח֙) among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.