Noadiah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Noadiah
     meeting with the Lord. (1.) A Levite who returned from Babylon
     (Ezra 8:33).
     
       (2.) A false prophetess who assisted Tobiah and Sanballat
     against the Jews (Neh. 6:14). Being bribed by them, she tried to


     stir up discontent among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and so to
     embarrass Nehemiah in his great work of rebuilding the ruined
     walls of the city.
     

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

  Noadiah, witness, or ornament, of the Lord