ez'-ra (Aramaic or Chaldee, `ezra', "help"; a hypocoristicon, or shorte ned formof Azariah, "Yahweh has helped." The Hebrew spells the name `ezr ah, as in 1 Chronicles 4:17, or uses the Aramaic spelling of the name, a s in Ezra 7:1. The Greek form is Esdrd
Ezra of Judah