Bible Person
Meaning: the hand of the Lord; confessing the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
This Jedaiah entry refers to the priestly house-name in Nehemiah's lists, not to the Zechariah 6 returnee figure or the previously overridden priestly-course entry. He belongs to the structured priestly continuity of restored Jerusalem. First appears in Neh 12:7.1
AI summary: This Jedaiah matters because the cross references place the name among the ranked priestly houses of the post-exilic community. Even without a separate narrative, the entry reflects the institutional continuity through which worship is re-established after exile. Taken together, the material presents this Jedaiah as a priestly house-name contributing to the ordered religious life of the restored city.1
Central Figure
Jedaiah
Meaning: the hand of the Lord; confessing the Lord
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.