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 (1 Ch 5:24). (2) A Benjamite, the son of Hassenuah (1 Ch 9:7). (3) A Levite, who seems to have been the head of an important family in that tribe (Ezr 2:40). In Neh 7:43 the name is Hodevah (hodhewah; Qere hodheyah). Compare Ezr 3:9. (4) A son of Elioenai, and a descendant of David (1 Ch 3:24; hodhaywahu; Qere hodhawyahu, the King James Version "Hodaiah"). |