דְּלָיָה

Strong’s Definition

Delajah, the name of five Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

or (prolonged) דְּלָיָהוּxlit Dᵉlâyâhhûw corrected to Dᵉlâyâhûw; from H1802 (דָּלָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has delivered;

KJV Usage

Dalaiah, Delaiah.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.a priest in the time of david, leader of the 23rd course
• 2.a son of shemaiah, a ruler of judah in the time of jeremiah in the court of jehoiakim
• 3.the head of an exilic family, of uncertain pedigree, claiming to be israelites in the time of zerubbabel
• 4.a descendant of zerubbabel
• 5.the son of mehetabeel and the father of shemaiah, a contemporary of nehemiah

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Dᵉlâyâh; Pronunciation: del-aw-yaw'