Bible Person
Meaning: the hand of the Lord; confessing the Lord · Male · 3 cross references
Jedaiah is associated with a priestly course and later returnee priestly families in Ezra and Nehemiah. He belongs to the continuity of temple leadership before exile, after return, and into restored worship. First appears in 1 Chr 24:7.1
AI summary: Jedaiah matters because the cross references place his name in both the organization of priestly service and the post-exilic reconstitution of the priesthood. That continuity shows how restored worship drew on remembered lines of service rather than starting from nothing. Taken together, the material presents Jedaiah as a priestly name linking ordered ministry with the recovery of temple life after exile.1
Central Figure
Jedaiah
Meaning: the hand of the Lord; confessing the Lord
Knowing Jehovah.
Knowing Jehovah. The chief of one of the courses of the priests (1 Chr. 24:7). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.