JESHAIAH.1. A grandson of Zerubbabel (1Ch_3:21). 2. One of the sons of Jeduthun (1Ch_25:3; 1Ch_25:15). 3. A Levite (1Ch_26:25). 4. The chief of the Benç-Elam who returned (Ezr_8:7 [1Es_8:33 Jesaias]). 5. Chief of the Merarites (Ezr_8:19 [1Es_8:48 Osaias]). 6. A Benjamite (Neh_11:7).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. 1Ch_25:3; 1Ch_25:15.
2. 1Ch_26:25. ISSHIAH, 1Ch_24:21.
3. Ezr_8:7.
4. Ezr_8:19.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jesha'iah. (salvation of Jehovah).
1. One of the six sons of Jeduthun. 1Ch_25:3; 1Ch_25:15. (B.C. 1014).
2. A Levite, in the reign of David, eldest son of Rehabiah, a descendant of Amram through Moses. 1Ch_26:25. See Isshiah. (B.C. before 1014).
3. The son of Athaliah, and chief of the house of Bene-Elam, (that is, sons of Elam), who returned with Ezra. Ezr_8:7. See Josias. (B.C. 459).
4. A Merarite, who returned with Ezra. Ezr_8:19.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jḗ-shā?-ya, jḗ-shı̄?-a ((a) ישׁעיהוּ, yesha‛-yāhū; (b) ישׁעיה, yesha‛yāh, ?deliverance of Yah?; (2) (3) below have form (a), the others form (b)):
(1) Son of Hananiah, and grandson of Zerubbabel, according to 1Ch_3:21, the King James Version ?Jesaiah.?
But commentators follow Hebrew (and the Revised Version margin) in the first part of the verse, and Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac in the second part, thus reading, ?And the son of Hananiah (was) Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah (was) his son, and Arnan his son,? etc., thus making Jeshaiah a grandson of Hananiah.
(2) A ?son? of Jeduthun, and like him a temple musician; head of the family of that name (1Ch_25:3, 1Ch_25:15).
(3) A Levite, ancestor of Shelemoth, one of David's treasurers (1Ch_26:25).
(4) A descendant of Elam; he went with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem (Ezr_8:7) = ?Jesias? (Revised Version), ?Josias? (the King James Version), 1 Esdras 8:33.
(5) A descendant of Merari and a contemporary of Ezra (Ezr_8:19) = ?Osaias? of 1 Esdras 8:48.
(6) A Benjamite (Neh_11:7), the King James Version ?Jesaiah.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jeshaiah
[many Jeshai'ah] (Hebrew Yeshayah', יְשִׁעְיָה, deliverance of Jehovah;' 1Ch_3:21; Ezr_8:7; Ezr_8:19; Neh_11:7; elsewhere in the paragogic form יְשָׁעְיָהוּ, Yeshaya'hu), the name of several men.
1. (Sept: ᾿Ωσαίας v.r. Ι᾿ωσίας , Vulg. Iasajas, Author. Ver. Jeshaiah.) Son of Rehabiah, and father of Joram, of the Levitical family of Eliezer (1Ch_26:25). B.C. considerably ante 1014.
2. (Sept. Ι᾿εεία v.r. Ι᾿σαές; Ι᾿σίας v.r. Ι᾿ωσιά; Vulg. Jesejas, Auth. Vers. Jeshaiah.) One of the sons of Jeduthun, appointed under him among the sacred harpers (1Ch_25:3), at the head of the eighth division of Levitical musicians (1Ch_25:15). B.C. 1014.
3. SEE ISAIAH.
4. (Septuag. Ι᾿εσσεία v.r. Ι᾿εσίας, Vulg. Isaja, Auth. Vers. Jesaiah.) Father of Ithiel, a Benjamite, whose descendant Sallu resided in Jerusalem after the exile (Neh_9:7). B.C. long ante 539.
5. (Septuagint Ι᾿εσεία v.r. Ι᾿εσίας, Vulgate Jesejas, Auth. Vers. Jesaiah.) The second of the three sons of Hananiah, son of Zerubbabel (1Ch_3:21; see Strong's Harmony and Expos. of the Gosp. p. 17). B.C. post 536.
6. (Septuag. ῾Ησαϊvα v.r. Ι᾿σαϊvας, Vulg. Isajas, Auth. Vers. Jeshaiah.) Son of Athaliah, of the sons of Elam, who returned with 70 male relatives from Babylon (Ezr_8:7). B.C. 459.
7. (Sept. Ι᾿σαϊvα, Vulg. Isajas, Author. Vers. Jeshaiah.) A Levite of the family of Merari, who accompanied Hashabiah to the river Ahava, on the way from Babylon to Palestine (Ezr_8:19). B.C. 459.
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