Bible Names

Pethahiah: meaning of the name

Pethahiah means “the Lord opening; gate of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

People named Pethahiah in the Bible

Pethahiah in Scripture

“Pethahiah” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:16

    The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,

  • Ezra 10:23

    Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

  • Nehemiah 9:5

    Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

  • Nehemiah 11:24

    And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.