Who was Parosh in the Bible?

Hebrew name: פָּרֹשׁ (Parosh)

Name meaning: “Flea”

Ancestral head of a family of exiles (Ezra 2:3, 10:25; Nehemiah 7:8)

As waves of exiled Jews returned to exile after the decree of Cyrus, they were organized and accounted for according to an ancestral head, or common ancestor. The family of Parosh participated in key reforms under Ezra and Nehemiah, including Ezra’s order to divorce foreign wives and Nehemiah’s written covenant to keep the Law of Moses.