Strong H1436H1436Aגְּדַלְיָה
Gedaliah
One of the 6 senses of Strong H1436
- Transliteration
- gedalyâh gedalyâhû
- Pronunciation
- {ghed-al-yaw'} ghed-al-yaw'-hoo
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.18
Meaning of the name
Gedaliah = "Jehovah is great"
General definition
In the biblical story
Gedaliah
Priest who married a foreign woman during the Exile.
Gedaliah, a priest, was among those who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile and pledged to put them away.
In the Bible
Strong H1436A appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- gedaliah1
First verses
- Ezra 10:18And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.