Dictionary

Pethahiah

Smith's Dictionary

(freed by Jehovah).

A priest, over the nineteenth course in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 24:16) (B.C. 1020.) A Levite in the time of Ezra, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:23) He is probably the same who is mentioned in (Nehemiah 9:5) (B.C. 458.) The son of Meshezabeel, and descendant of Zerah. (Nehemiah 11:24) (B.C. 446.)