Pethahiah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pethahiah
     loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly
     courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:16).
     (2.) A Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Neh. 9:5. (4.) A descendant of
     Judah who had some office at the court of Persia (Neh. 11:24).
     



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

  Pethahiah, the Lord opening; gate of the Lord