דְּלָיָהוּ

de.la.yah

Delaiah

Strong’s H1806Proper name, a person7 times in the Hebrew Bible

delaiah7

In the text

1 Chronicles 3:24וּדְלָיָה
The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani—seven in all.
Ezra 2:60דְלָיָה
the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 652 in all.
Nehemiah 6:10דְּלָיָה
Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”
Jeremiah 36:12וּדְלָיָהוּ
he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

דְּלָיָ֫הוּ, דְּלָיָה n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath drawn)

a. a priest, contemp. David

b. a prince of Judah, contemp. Jerem.

a. head of a family contemp. with Zerubb.

b. descendant of Zerubb.

c. father of contemp. of Neh.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.