Bible Person
Meaning: the hiding of the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
Habaiah is a priestly family name involved in the post-exilic questions of genealogical legitimacy. It belongs to the restored community's concern for verifying who may serve in sacred office. First appears in Ezra 2:61.1
AI summary: Habaiah matters because the cross references place the name in the group of priestly families unable to prove their lineage after the return. The entry highlights how seriously restoration-era Judah treated priestly identity and purity in matters of worship. Taken together, the material presents Habaiah as a priestly house-name illustrating the central role of verified genealogy in post-exilic temple service.1
Central Figure
Habaiah
Meaning: the hiding of the Lord
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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.