Habaiah
חֲבַיָהStrong’s H2252chavayyah (cha-vay-yah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavayyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hobaiah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.61; also called Hobaiah at Neh.7.63
How it's translated
- hobaiah 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲבַיָה chavayyah · Habaiah
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.61; also called Hobaiah at Neh.7.63; § Habaiah = "Jehovah has hidden" head of a priestly family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.