JAHDAI.A Calebite (1Ch_2:47).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Abruptly named in Caleb's genealogy (1Ch_2:47).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jah'da-i. (whom Jehovah directs). A man who appears to be thrust, abruptly into the genealogy of Caleb, as the father of six sons. 1Ch_2:47.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ja?dā̇-ı̄, ja?dı̄ (יהדּי, yahday, ?Yah leads? (?); Baer reads יהדּי, yehday): In 1Ch_2:47, where six sons of Jahdai are mentioned. ?The name has been taken as that of another wife or concubine of Caleb; more probably Jahdai is a descendant of Caleb, whose name, in the original connection, has fallen from the text? (Curtis, Chronicles, 96).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jahdai
(Heb. Yahday', יָהְדָּי, prob. grasper; Sept. Ι᾿αδαϊv), a descendant apparently of Caleb, of the family of Hezron; his sons' names are given, but, as his own parentage is not stated (1Ch_2:47), it can only be conjectured that lie was the son of the preceding Gazez, the son (different from the brother) of Haran (1Ch_2:46). B.C. prob. post 1612. Various other suggestions regarding the name have been made, as that Gazez, the name preceding, should be Jahdai (Houbigant, ad loc.); that Jahdai was a concubine of Caleb (Grunenberg quoted by Michaelis, Adnof. ad loc.), etc.; but these are mere groundless suppositions (see Burrington, 1, 216; Bertheau, Comment. ad loc.).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.