ACHIAS.An ancestor of Ezra (2Es_1:2), omitted in Ezr. and 1 Es.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
a-kı̄?as: An ancestor of Ezra (2 Esdras 1:2). Omitted in other genealogies.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Achias
(Lat. id., for the Gr. text is no longer extant; prob. for Ahijai), a person named as son of Phinees (Phinehas), and father of Achitob (Ahitub) in the list of sacerdotal ancestors of Esdras or Ezra (2 [Vulg. 4] Ezr_1:2); but, as the parallel list (Ezr_7:3) gives no corresponding name, it is either an interpolation or, perhaps, a corruption for the AHIMAAZ SEE AHIMAAZ of 1Ch_6:8-9.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.