Bible Names

Heldai: meaning of the name

Heldai means “Heleb, Heled, the world; rustiness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Heldai in Hebrew and Greek

חֶלְדַּי H2469

Chelday (khel-dah'-ee) — Cheldai, the name of two Israelites

from H2466 (חֵלֶד); worldliness;

Heldai in Scripture

“Heldai” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:15

    The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

  • Zechariah 6:10

    Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;