Dictionaries :: Hodaviah

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Hodaviah:

Hodiah, Hodijah, same as Hodaiah

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Hodaviah:

hod-a-vi'-a (hodhawyah, or hodhawyahu; the Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus, Hodouia):

(1) One of the heads of the half-tribe of Manasseh on the East of the Jordan (1Ch 5:24).

(2) A Benjamite, the son of Hassenuah (1Ch 9:7).

(3) A Levite, who seems to have been the head of an important family in that tribe (Ezr 2:40). In Ne 7:43 the name is Hodevah (hodhewah; Qere hodheyah). Compare Ezr 3:9.

(4) A son of Elioenai, and a descendant of David (1Ch 3:24; hodhaywahu; Qere hodhawyahu, the King James Version "Hodaiah").

Nave's Topical Bible

Hodaviah: 1. A Chief of the Half-Tribe of Manasseh

Whose inheritance was east of the Jordan River,

1Ch 5:24.

Hodaviah: 2. A Benjamite

1Ch 9:7

Hodaviah: 3. A Levite

Ezr 2:40

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Hodaviah:

(Praise ye Jehovah).

(1.) A man of Manasseh, one of the heads of the half tribe on the east of Jordan (1 Chronicles 5:24). (B.C. 720)

(2.) A man of Benjamin, son of Has‐senuah (1 Chronicles 9:7).

(3.) A Levite, who seems to have given his name to an important family in the tribe (Ezra 2:40). (B.C. before 536)