דְּלָיָ֫הוּ
Dalaiah
BDB lists 6 entries for ‘Dalaiah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1806 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 6:10 דְּלָיָ֛ה n Proper I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you.
- Nehemiah 7:62 דְלָיָ֥ה n Proper The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 36:12 וּ/דְלָיָ֣הוּ conj + n Proper he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
- Jeremiah 36:25 וּ/דְלָיָ֤הוּ conj + n Proper Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
דליה — transliterated Dᵉlâyâh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Dalaiah.” It first appears in 1 Chronicles 3:24. With 7 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in 1 Chronicles (29% of all occurrences). See 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1806 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 29%
- Nehemiah 2 verses 29%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 29%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 71%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Delaiah 6×
- American Standard Version: Delaiah 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Delaiah 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Delaiah 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1806 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1806 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1806 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1806 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. דְּלָיָהוּ,
- a. a priest, contemp. David, 1 Ch 24:18. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:18
- b. a prince of Judah, contemp. Jerem Je 36:12, 25. e.g. Jeremiah 36:12
- 2. דְּלָיָה,
- a. head of a family contemp. with Zerubb. Ezr 2:60 = Ne 7:62. e.g. Ezra 2:60
- b. descendant of Zerubb. 1 Ch 3:24. e.g. 1 Chronicles 3:24
- c. father of contemp. of Neh. 6:10. e.g. Nehemiah 6:10
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath drawn)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דלה (dâlâh) (H1802) — to draw.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דְּלִיָּה
- (דָּלָה) drawing water. Ex. R. s. 1 ד׳ אחת דלה one draft (bucketful) he drew.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H1806 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דְלָיָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:60 | 2 |
| דְּלָיָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:10 | 1 |
| וּ/דְלָיָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:24 | 1 |
| וּ/דְלָיָ֣הוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 36:12 | 1 |
| וּ/דְלָיָ֤הוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 36:25 | 1 |
| לִ/דְלָיָ֨הוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1806, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- דלה dallâh H1803 hair
- דלי dᵉlîy H1805 bucket
- דליה dâlîyâh H1808 branch
- דלל dâlal H1809 to hang
- דלת deleth H1817 door
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Dalaiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(freed by Jehovah) a descendant of the royal family of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:24)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the poor of the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
