Bible Dictionaries

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pethahiah

Pethahi'ah. (freed by Jehovah).

1. A priest, over the nineteenth course, in the reign of David. 1 Chronicles 24:16. (B.C. 1020).

2. A Levite, in the time of Ezra, who had married a foreign wife. Ezra 10:23. He is probably the same who is mentioned in Nehemiah 9:5. (B.C. 458).

3. The son of Meshezabeel, and descendant of Zerah. Nehemiah 11:24. (B.C. 446).