Delaiah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Delaiah
     freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of
     the priestly order (1 Chr. 24:18).
     
       (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom
     Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jer. 36:12).


     
       (3.) The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned
     under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; Neh. 7:62).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Delaiah, the poor of the Lord