Bible Person
Meaning: shepherd or companion to the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
Reelaiah is one of the named returnees associated with Zerubbabel in Ezra and Nehemiah. He belongs to the first generation of exiles who help reestablish life in Judah. First appears in Ezra 2:2.1
AI summary: Reelaiah matters because his cross references place the name in the foundational returnee roll that defines the human starting point of post-exilic restoration. Even where the entry is only a list item, it carries the weight of remembered participation in the return. Taken together, the material presents Reelaiah as one of the named figures in the first restored community.1
Central Figure
Reelaiah
Meaning: shepherd or companion to the Lord
Thunder of the Lord, one of the princes who returned from the Exile (Neh.
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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.