How to Pronounce Esdras
EZ-druhs
Esdras is pronounced EZ-druhs: two syllables, stress on the first.
What is Esdras?
(Greek form of Ezra), The First Book of, the first in order of the apocryphal books in the English Bible. The first chapter is a transcript of the last two chapters of 2 Chron., for the most part verbatim, and only in one or two parts slightly abridged and paraphrased. Chapters 3,4, and 5 to the end of ver. 6, are the original portions of the book, and the rest is a transcript more or less exact of the book of Ezra, with the chapters transposed and quite otherwise arranged, and a portion of Nehemiah.
Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.