increase of the Lord; the Lord's finishing
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
JOSIPHIAH.The father of one of Ezras companions (Ezr_8:10); in 1Es_8:36 Josaphias.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ezr_8:10.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Josiphi'ah. (whom Jehovah will increase). The father or ancestor of Shelomith, who returned with Ezra. Ezr_8:10. (B.C. 459).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jos-i-fı̄?a (יופיה, yōs̱iphyāh, ?Yah adds?): Found in Ezr_8:10, where Massoretic Text is ?and of the sons of ... Shelomith the son of Josiphiah.? With the help of Septuagint A and 1 Esdras 8:36, the name ?Bani? (which is the same in the unpointed text as ?the sons of? and was omitted through haplography) can be supplied above before ?Shelomith.? Josiphia is thus the father of Shelomith, one of Ezra's companions. 1 Esdras 8:36 has ?Josaphias.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Josiphiah
(Heb. Yosiphyah', יוֹסַפַיָה, increased by Jehovah; Sept. Ι᾿ωσεφία), one of the "sons" of Shelomith (as the Heb. text now stands), a chief Israelite, whose son (Ben-Josiphiah) returned with a company of 160 males under Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezr_8:10). B.C. 459. A word, however, has evidently fallen out of the Hebrew text in the beginning of the verse, and is supplied by the Sept. and the author of 1Es_8:36, as well as (less correctly) in the Syriac; namely, Βαανί (Βανίδ), i.e. בָּני, omitted from similarity to בְּנֵיpreceding; thus making Bani (q.v.) the son of Shelomith, and the leader of the party of returned exiles.
Josippon.
SEE JOSEPH BEN-GORION.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.