H2252: חֲבַיָּה
Chăbayâh · pronounced khab-ah-yaw' · “Habaiah”
Definition
Chabajah, an Israelite
KJV translates it as: Habaiah.
Word origin: or חֲבָיָהlemma חֲבָיה missing vowel, corrected to חֲבָיָה; from H2247 (חָבָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has hidden;
Extended definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.61; also called Hobaiah at Neh.7.63;
§ Habaiah = "Jehovah has hidden"
head of a priestly family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
§ Habaiah = "Jehovah has hidden"
head of a priestly family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2252 is translated
- hobaiah ×2
Bible verses with H2252 (Chăbayâh)
Chăbayâh appears in 2 verses.
- Ezra 2:61
And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
- Nehemiah 7:63
And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.