Bible Person
Meaning: prince of the Lord · Male · 4 cross references
This Seraiah entry refers to the priestly or signatory figure in Ezra-Nehemiah, not the high-priestly Seraiah already separately overridden. He belongs to the restoration-era ordering of worship and covenant life. First appears in Ezra 2:2.1
AI summary: This Seraiah matters because the cross references place the name among returnees, covenant signers, and priestly continuity in the restored community. He is not a dramatic figure, but the repetition of his name across communal lists shows how restoration depended on known leaders and houses. Taken together, the material presents this Seraiah as a restoration-era priestly figure within the renewed life of Jerusalem.1
Central Figure
Seraiah
Meaning: prince of the Lord
A priest of the days of Jehoiakim (Neh.
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.