Bible Person
Meaning: the poor of the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
This Delaiah entry refers to the returnee family or house-name listed in Ezra and Nehemiah, not to the courtier in Jeremiah. It belongs to the household-level reality of post-exilic restoration. First appears in Ezra 2:60.1
AI summary: This Delaiah matters because the cross references place the name among the returned families whose identity and status had to be carried back into the rebuilt community. Though no separate story is attached, such entries show how restoration depended on the return of named houses, not abstract populations. Taken together, the material presents this Delaiah as a returnee house contributing to the repopulation and reconstitution of Judah.1
Central Figure
Delaiah
Meaning: the poor of the Lord
The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; 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.