the praise of the Lord
(same as Hodaiah, Hodiah, Hodijah)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HODAVIAH.1. A Manassite clan (1Ch_5:24). 2. The name of a Benjamite family (1Ch_9:7). 3. A Levitical family name (Ezr_2:40); called in Neh_7:43 Hodevah. 4. A descendant of David (1Ch_3:24).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. 1Ch_5:24.
2. 1Ch_9:7.
3. Head of "the children of Hodaviah" or Hodevah (who returned with Zerubbabel); akin to the name Judah (Ezr_2:40; Ezr_3:9, margin; Neh_7:43).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hodavi'ah. (Praise ye Jehovah).
1. A man of Manasseh, one of the heads of the half tribe, on the east of Jordan, 1Ch_5:24. (B.C. 720).
2. A man of Benjamin, son of Has-senuah. 1Ch_9:7.
3. A Levite, who seems to have given his name, to an important family in the tribe. Ezr_2:40. (B.C. before 536).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
hod-a-vı̄?a (הודויה, hōdhawyāh, or הודויהוּ, hōdhawyāhū; the Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus, Ὡδουία, Hōdouı́a):
(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 Neh_7:43 the name is Hodevah (הודוה, hōdhewāh; Ḳerē הודיה, hōdheyāh). Compare Ezr_3:9.
(4) A son of Elioenai, and a descendant of David (1Ch_3:24; הודיוהוּ, hōdhaywāhū; Ḳerē הודויהוּ, hōdhawyāhū, the King James Version ?Hodaiah?).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hodaviah
(Heb. Hodavyah', הוֹדִוְיָה, praise of Jehovah, or perh. i.q. הוֹדוּיָה, praise ye Jehovah; Sept. ᾿Ωδουία or ᾿Ωδουϊvα), the name of three or four men.
1. A chieftain and warrior of the tribe of Manasseh East at the time of the Assyrian captivity (1 Chronicles 5, 24). B.C. cir. 720.
2. Son of Has-senuah and father of Meshullam, of the tribe of Benjamin (1Ch_9:7). B.C. ante 588.
3. A Levite whose posterity (to the number of 74) returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:40). In the parallel passage, Neh_7:43, his name is written Hodevah' (הוֹדנְוָה, by contraction for Hodaviah, marg. הוֹדנְיָה, by contraction for Hodijah; Sept. Οὐδουία, Vulgate Oduja). B.C. ante 536. Apparently the same is elsewhere called JUDAH (Ezr_3:9).
4. See HODAIAH. Hodegetics, a word properly signifying the art of induction, or, better, the art of introduction (τέχνη being understood with ὁδηγητική), but generally taken to signify introduction (ὁδηγία) itself, especially when reference is made to scientific Hodegetics. The Hodegete (ὁδηγητής), of course, is expected to be thoroughly conversant with the science of which he treats, and which he is to introduce, else he might easily lead ill the wrong direction, or into another department. Other names for this science are Methodology (from μεθοδος), or Propaedeutics (from πρό and παιδεύω, παῖς), or Isagogics (from εἰς and ἄγω). The difference between Hodegetics and Encyclopsedia (q.v.) of Theology is, that the former has regard to the personal qualifications of the student, his method of study, his preparatory helps, etc., whereas the latter has regard to the various departments and systems of the science itself. The literature of Hodegetics is quite extensive. See Schlegel, Summe 5. Esfahrungen und Beobb. z. Beford. d. Studien in gel. Schulen und auf. Univ. (Riga, 1790); Kiesevetter, Lehrb. d. Hod. o. kurze Aszweis. z. studieren (Berl. 1811); Schelling, Vorles. ib. d. Methode d. akadem. Studiums (3rd edit. Tübingen, 1832); Scheidler, Grundr. d. H. o. Methodik d. akadem. Stud. (3rd ed. Jena, 1847). Krug, Phil. Lex. 5, 1, 531; Danz, Univ. Wort. d. theol. Lit. p. 404; Bib. Sac. 1, 179. SEE INTRODUCTION.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.