CATHUA (1Es_5:30).One of the heads of families of Temple servants who returned with Zerubbabel from captivity. It appears to correspond to Giddel in Ezr_2:47; cf. Neh_7:49.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ka-thū?a (Καθουά, Kathouá; Codex Vaticanus, Κουά, Kouá): Head of a family of temple-servants who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:30); corresponds to Giddel in Ezr_2:47.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Cathua
(Καθουά), one of the family heads of the "servants of the Temple" (Nethinim) that returned from Babylon (1Es_5:30); apparently the GIDDEL SEE GIDDEL (q.v.) of the Hebrews texts (Ezr_2:47; Neh_7:49).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.