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JEDAIAH

(Heb. yĕḏaʿyâ, yĕḏāyâ)

1. The son of Shimri; a clan leader in the tribe of Simeon (1 Chr. 4:37)

2. Eponymous ancestor of a priestly house (1 Chr. 9:10; 24:7). His descendants were mentioned among the Jews who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Captivity (Ezra 2:36 = Neh. 7:39).

3. One of the people who built a part of the wall in postexilic Jerusalem (Neh. 3:10).

4. A priest who lived in Jerusalem at the time of Nehemiah (Neh. 11:10).

5-6. Two levitical chiefs who came up with Zerubbabel and Joshua to Judah in the reign of Darius I (Neh. 12:6-7). The connection between the two is not clear.

7-8. Two priests, each the head of a family, who returned following the Exile (Neh. 12:19, 21).

9. A contemporary of the prophet Zechariah, who returned from exile to Judah. Together with three other persons, he supplied silver and gold to Zechariah, who prepared a crown for Joshua the high priest as a memorial, perhaps of past apostasy (Zech. 6:10, 14).

Isaac Kalimi

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JEDAIAH

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)