Strong H1271H1271Iבַּרְזִלַּי
Barzillai
One of the 3 senses of Strong H1271
- Transliteration
- barzillay
- Pronunciation
- bar-zil-lah'ee
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.61
Meaning of the name
Barzillai = "my iron"
General definition
From H1270; iron hearted;
{Barzillai} the name of three Israelites: - Barzillai.
{Barzillai} the name of three Israelites: - Barzillai.
In the biblical story
Barzillai
Ancestor of a priestly family who returned from exile.
The descendants of Barzillai were a priestly family who returned from Babylonian exile but could not prove their lineage.
In the Bible
Strong H1271I appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- barzillai2
First verses
- Ezra 2:61And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
- Nehemiah 7:63And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.