EZORA

e-zo'-ra (Ezora, the King James Version Ozora): He and his six sons "gave their hands to put away their strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:20,34 = "Machnadebai" of Ezra 10:40).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.