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Strong's #1806 - דְּלָיָה
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Dalaiah or Delaiah = “Jehovah has drawn”
1) a priest in the time of David, leader of the 23rd course
2) a son of Shemaiah, a ruler of Judah in the time of Jeremiah in the court of Jehoiakim
3) the head of an exilic family, of uncertain pedigree, claiming to be Israelites in the time of Zerubbabel
4) a descendant of Zerubbabel
5) the son of Mehetabeel and the father of Shemaiah, a contemporary of Nehemiah
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1דְּלָיָהוּ,
a. a priest, contemporary of David, 1 Chronicles 24:18.
b. a prince of Judah, contemporary of Jeremiah Jeremiah 36:12,25.
2 דְּלָיָה,
a. head of a family contemporary with Zerubbabel Ezra 2:60 = Nehemiah 7:62.
b. descendant of Zerubbabel. 1 Chronicles 3:24.
c. father of contemporary of Nehemiah Nehemiah 6:10.
דְּלָיָה (“whom Jehovah has freed”), [Delaiah], pr.n. m.
(1) Nehemiah 6:10.
(2) 1 Chronicles 3:24.
(3) Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 7:62. [“The Phœnicians had the pr.n. Δελαιάσταρτος, Jos. c. Apion, i.e. דלי עשתרת freed by Astarte.”]
