counsel of the Lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BESODEIAH (Neh_3:6).Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, took part in repairing the Old Gate.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Neh_3:6.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Besode'iah. (in the secret of the Lord). Father of one of the repairers of the wall of Jerusalem. Neh_3:6.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bes-ō̇-dē?ya, bes-ō̇-dı̄?a (בּסודיה, beṣōdheyāh, ?in the confidence or counsel of Yah?; compare Jer_23:18, Jer_23:22; and HPN, 207, 221, 286): Father of Meshullam, the builder (Neh_3:6).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Besodeiah
(Heb. Besodyah', בְּסוֹדיָה, in the council of Jehovah; according to First, son of trust in Jehovah; Sept. Βασωδία), the father of Meshullam, which latter repaired the old gate of Jerusalem (Nehemiah in. 6). B.C. ante 446.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.