Pelayah פְּלָאיָה

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Pelayah
פְּלָאיָה
Transliterationpelayah
Strong's numberH6411 (H6411A, H6411B)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossPelaiah
Occurrences3 in 3 verses
Most frequent inNehemiah (2)

Pelayah (Hebrew פְּלָאיָה, Strong's H6411) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Pelaiah”. It occurs 3 times.

Definition

H6411A: Pelaiah

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Neh.8.7
§ Pelaiah = "Jehovah does wonders"
1) son of Elioenai and a descendant of David in the royal line
2) a priest who helped Ezra to expound the law to the people and also sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

H6411B: Pelaiah

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.3.24;
son of: Elioenai (H0454B);
brother of: Hodaviah (H1938), Eliashib (H0475), Akkub (H6126), Johanan (H3110I), Delaiah (H1806) and Anani (H6054)
§ Pelaiah = "Jehovah does wonders"
1) son of Elioenai and a descendant of David in the royal line
2) a priest who helped Ezra to expound the law to the people and also sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVpelaiah (3)
BSBpelaiah (3)

Verses

Every verse with Pelayah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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