The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

EZRA 2:9KJV
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Ezra 2:9 (KJV)

What does Ezra 2:9 mean?

Ezra 2:9 lists a group returning from exile, specifically identifying “the children of Zaccai” and numbering them as seven hundred and sixty people. This verse is part of a census recording the families and their sizes among those who came back to Jerusalem from Babylon.

Ezra, the writer, is documenting the names and numbers of Israelite families who returned to their homeland after the Babylonian captivity. The verse simply notes that the descendants of a man named Zaccai were counted among the returnees, with a precise total. This record helps show the makeup of the restored community and preserves the memory of those who participated in rebuilding Israel’s life after exile.

Where else these words appear

“Zaccai” Hebrew H2140 · used in 3 verses

  • Ezra 10:28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
  • Nehemiah 7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

“threescore” Hebrew H8346 · used in 56 verses

  • Genesis 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  • Numbers 31:34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
  • 2 Chronicles 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines:(for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)