HODEVAH

ho-de'-va, ho'-de-va (hodhewah, hodheyah, "splendor of Yah"):

A Levite and founder of a Levite family, seventy-four of whom returned from exile with Zerubbabel, 538 BC (Nehemiah 7:43). the American Revised Version, margin gives as another reading "Hodeiah." In Ezra 2:40 he is called Hodaviah, of which Hodevah and Hodeiah are slight textual corruptions, and in Ezra 3:9 Judah, a name practically synonymous.

Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'HODEVAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.