Hacaliah
חֲכַלְיָהStrong’s H2446chakhalyah (cha-khal-yah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chakhalyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hacaliah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Neh.1.1
How it's translated
- hacaliah 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֲכַלְיָה chakhalyah · Hacaliah
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Neh.1.1; father of: Nehemiah (H5166H), Hanani (H2607J) § Hachaliah = "whom Jehovah enlightens" the father of Nehemiah
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.