Hebrew word · H1940
הוֹדִיָּה
hodiyah
Hodiah
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A woman(?) of the tribe of Judah(?) living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.4.19; whose brother was Naham (H5163); married to Ishbah (H3431)(?)
§ Hodiah = "majesty of Jehovah"
one of the two wives of Ezra, a man of Judah
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
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Where it appears
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 4:19 הֽוֹדִיָּ֔ה Hodiah
The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
Here: A name meaning roughly 'Majesty of Yah' or 'Praise Yah'. Elsewhere it is a man's name (Levites in Nehemiah 8–10), so 'wife of Hodiah' is the natural reading. The KJV takes Hodiah as the wife's own name instead.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.