יְדַעְיָה
Jedaiah
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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 H3048 appears in the Book of Zechariah — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Zechariah
- Zechariah 6:10 יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה n Proper "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
- Zechariah 6:14 וְ/לִ/ידַֽעְיָ֔ה conj + prep + n Proper The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh.
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.
“Jedaiah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name ידעיה (Yᵉdaʻyâh). More than half of its appearances fall in Nehemiah. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 11 verses — uncommon. First canonically at 1 Chronicles 9:10, it enters the text early. See 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3048 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 6 verses 55%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 18%
- Zechariah 2 verses 18%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 82%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 18%
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: Jedaiah 11×
- American Standard Version: Jedaiah 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jedaiah 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jedaiah 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3048 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3048 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3048 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3048 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 5 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. 1 Ch 9:10 𝔊 Ιωαδε, 24:7 𝔊 (Ανε)ιδεια. e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:10
- 2. Ezr 2:36 Ne 7:39 𝔊 Ιεουδα, (Ι)εδδουα, Ιωαδε. e.g. Ezra 2:36
- 3. Ne 11:10; 12:6, 19 𝔊 Δαδεια, Ιαδιας, Ιδειας, etc. e.g. Nehemiah 11:10
- 4. Ne 12:7, 21 𝔊L Ωδουιας. e.g. Nehemiah 12:7
- 5. Zc 6:10, 14 𝔊 (παρὰ) τῶν ἐπεγνωκότων αὐτήν. e.g. Zechariah 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. (Sab. n.pr. ידעאל DHMZMG 1875, 605) priestly name;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ידע (yâdaʻ) (H3045) — to know.
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.
יְדַעְיָה
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Jedaiah,
- 1. a priestly division, named after its head. Taan. 27ᵃ, sq.; Arakh. 12ᵇ. Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵈ
- 2. poetic name of Sepphoris in Galilee whither the division of J. was exiled (v. Y. l. c.). Koh. R. to VII, 11; IX, 10 בני י׳ sons of J. (inhabitants of Sepph.).
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 7 distinct written forms H3048 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:7 | 2 |
| יְדַֽעְיָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:10 | 2 |
| יְדַֽעְיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:36 | 2 |
| לִֽ/ידַֽעְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:19 | 2 |
| וְ/לִ/ידַֽעְיָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Zechariah 6:14 | 1 |
| יְדַֽעְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:6 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ידַעְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3048, 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
- דע dêaʻ H1843 knowledge
- דעת daʻath H1847 knowledge
- ידע yᵉdaʻ H3046 to know
- ידעני yiddᵉʻônîy H3049 soothsayer
- מדע maddâʻ H4093 knowledge
- מודע môwdaʻ H4129 kinsman
- מודעת môwdaʻath H4130 kindred
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- דעואל Dᵉʻûwʼêl H1845 Deuel
- ידוע Yaddûwaʻ H3037 Jaddua
- ידיעאל Yᵉdîyʻăʼêl H3043 Jediael
- ידע Yâdâʻ H3047 Jada
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jedaiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(1.) Invoker of Jehovah. The son of Shimri, a chief Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37).
(2.) One of those who repaired the walls of Jerusalem after the return from Babylon (Neh. 3:10).
(3.) Knowing Jehovah. The chief of one of the courses of the priests (1 Chr. 24:7).
(4.) A priest in Jerusalem after the Exile (1 Chr. 9:10).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
+ A Simeonite, forefather of Ziza. (1 Chronicles 4:37) + Son of Harumaph; a man who did his part in the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:10) (B.C. 446.)
(praise Jehovah).
+ Head of the second course of priests, as they were divided in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 24:7) (B.C. 1014.) some of them survived to return to Jerusalem after the Babylonish captivity, as appears from (Ezra 2:36; Nehemiah 7:39) + A priest in the time of Jeshua the high priest. (Zechariah 6:10,14) (B.C. 536.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the hand of the Lord; confessing 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 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
