the Lord opening; gate of the Lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
PETHAHIAH.1. The head of the nineteenth priestly course (1Ch_24:15). 2. A Levite (Ezr_10:23, Neh_9:5); in 1Es_9:23 Patheus. 3. A Judahite officer (Neh_11:24).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. 1Ch_24:16.
2. Ezr_10:23; Neh_9:5.
3. Sprung from Zerah of Judah. "At the king's (Artaxerxes) hand (one of his council) in all matters concerning the people" (Neh_11:24; Ezr_7:1-20).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Pethahi'ah. (freed by Jehovah).
1. A priest, over the nineteenth course, in the reign of David. 1Ch_24:16. (B.C. 1020).
2. A Levite, in the time of Ezra, who had married a foreign wife. Ezr_10:23. He is probably the same who is mentioned in Neh_9:5. (B.C. 458).
3. The son of Meshezabeel, and descendant of Zerah. Neh_11:24. (B.C. 446).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
peth-a-hı̄?a (פּתחיה, pethaḥyāh, ?Yah opens up?):
(1) Chief of the 19th course of priests (1Ch_24:16).
(2) One of the Levites having ?foreign wives? (Ezr_10:23; Neh_9:5; ?Patheus? in 1 Esdras 9:23).
(3) Son of Meshezabeel, descendant of Judah, who was ?at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people? (Neh_11:24).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Pethahiah
(Heb. Pethachyah', פַּתִחיָה, freed of Jehovah; Sept. , Φεθεϊvα, Ezr_10:23; Φεσσίας, Neh_9:5; Φαθαϊvα, 11:24; Φεθείας, 1Ch_24:16). The name of three men.
1. The head of the nineteenth course in David's division of the priests (1Ch_24:16). B.C. cir. 1020.
2. A Levite, who put away an idolatrous wife at the injunction of Ezra (Ezr_10:23), and joined in the hymn of praise and the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh_9:5). B.C. cir. 458.
3. A Hebrew, son of Meshezabeel, of the tribe of Judah, who acted as counsellor of Artaxerxes in matters concerning the Jews (Neh_11:24). B.C. cir. 446.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.