Bible Names

Pelaiah: meaning of the name

Pelaiah means “the Lord's secret or miracle.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Pelaiah in Hebrew and Greek

פְּלָיָה H6411

Pᵉlâyâh (pel-aw-yaw') — Pelajah, the name of three Israelites

or פְּלָאיָה; from H6381 (פָּלָא) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has distinguished;

People named Pelaiah in the Bible

Pelaiah in Scripture

“Pelaiah” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:24

    And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

  • Nehemiah 8:7

    Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

  • Nehemiah 10:10

    And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,