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Jedaiah יְדַעְיָה
A priest. Jedaiah was the head of the second priestly division during King David's reign and his descendants returned from the Babylonian exile.
Where Jedaiah appears
1 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (1)
Key verses
- 1 Chronicles 24:7 first mention — Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
- Ezra 2:36 — The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
- Nehemiah 7:39 — The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.