Malchiah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Malchiah
     Jehovah's king. (1.) The head of the fifth division of the
     priests in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:9).
     
       (2.) A priest, the father of Pashur (1 Chr. 9:12; Jer. 38:1).
     


       (3.) One of the priests appointed as musicians to celebrate
     the completion of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:42).
     
       (4.) A priest who stood by Ezra when he "read in the book of
     the law of God" (Neh. 8:4).
     
       (5.) Neh. 3:11.
     
       (6.) Neh. 3:31.
     
       (7.) Neh. 3:14.
     

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

  Malchiah, Malchijah, the Lord my king, or my counselor