Bible Person
Meaning: the Lord opening; gate of the Lord · Male · 1 cross reference
This Pethahiah entry refers to the Judean representative at the Persian court in Nehemiah 11:24, not to the priestly division head or the Levites of the same name elsewhere. He belongs to the political and administrative setting of restored Jerusalem. First appears in Neh 11:24.1
AI summary: This Pethahiah matters because his single cross reference shows a Judean figure serving as a link between the people and imperial authority. The entry helps illustrate how post-exilic life required both local faithfulness and navigation of Persian structures. Taken together, the material presents this Pethahiah as a representative in post-exilic governance.1
Central Figure
Pethahiah
Meaning: the Lord opening; gate of the Lord
A descendant of Judah who had some office at the court of Persia (Neh.
A descendant of Judah who had some office at the court of Persia (Neh. 11:24). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.