ezrach · native

What it means

ezrach (אֶזְרָח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “native”.

Born in the land; a member of the people by birth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone born locally, not a foreigner.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×7
• Numbers×4
• Joshua×1
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Exodus 12:19

  For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a resident alien or a native of the land.

• Exodus 12:48

  If a resident alien resides with you and would keep the Passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised; then he may come near to keep it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man shall eat of it.

• Exodus 12:49

  There shall be one law for the native and for the resident alien who resides among you.”

• Leviticus 16:29

  And this shall be for you a statute forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work the native or the resident alien who resides among you.

• Leviticus 17:15

  And any person who eats an animal that died or one torn by beasts, whether native or resident alien, shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.

• Leviticus 18:26

  But you shall keep my statutes and my rules, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the resident alien who resides among you

• Leviticus 19:34

  As the native among you shall be to you the resident alien who resides with you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 23:42

  In booths you shall live seven days; all the native in Israel shall live in booths,

• Leviticus 24:16

  And whoever blasphemes the name of YHWH shall surely be put to death; all the community shall surely stone him; the resident alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

• Leviticus 24:22

  You shall have one rule: the resident alien shall be like the native; for I am YHWH your Elohim.”

• Numbers 9:14

  And if a resident alien resides among you and keeps the Passover to YHWH, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so he shall keep it; you shall have one statute, both for the resident alien and for the native of the land.’”

• Numbers 15:13

  Every native-born shall do these things in this way in presenting a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:29

  For the native-born among the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them there shall be one instruction for you for the one who acts by oversight.

• Numbers 15:30

  But the person who acts with a raised hand, whether native-born or resident alien, he reviles YHWH, and that person shall be cut off from among their people.

• Joshua 8:33

  And all Israel, with its elders and supervisors and its judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, the resident alien as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at the first.

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen a fearsome wicked man, spreading himself out like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

• Ezekiel 47:22

  And it shall be that you shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the resident aliens who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you; and they shall be to you like the native among the sons of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.