קוֹלָיָה
Kolaiah
BDB lists 4 entries for ‘Kolaiah’ 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 H6964 appears in the Book of Nehemiah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Nehemiah
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.
The Hebrew name קוליה centers on the idea of “Kolaiah.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Nehemiah dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Debuting at Nehemiah 11:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6964 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: Kolaiah 2×
- American Standard Version: Kolaiah 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kolaiah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kolaiah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6964 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6964 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6964 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6964 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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 3 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. father of proph. Ahab Je 29:21. e.g. Jeremiah 29:21
- 2. Benjamite Ne 11:7; Κοδια, A Κωλεια, 𝔊L Κολεια. Prob. also e.g. Nehemiah 11:7
- 3. Levite Ezr 10:23, MT קֵלָיָה but 𝔊 Κωλεια, A Κωλαα (cf. GrayProp. N. 297). e.g. Ezra 10:23
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. (voice of י׳);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קול (qôwl) (H6963) — voice.
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.
קוּלְתָא
- (v. קוֹלָא II) pitcher, jar. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᵈ top איתגליית ק׳ דמיא a pitcher of water had been left uncovered; Y. Sabb. X, 3ᵈ top קלותא (corr. acc.). Y. Ab. Zar. V, 44ᵈ הדא ק׳ וכ׳ (not קולא), v. שְׁתַם. Lev. R. s. 33 (play on נ̇ב̇וכ̇ד̇ נ̇צ̇ר̇) נ̇ב̇ח ככלבא נפיח כק׳ נ̇צ̇ר̇ וכ׳ bark like a dog, be blown up (distended) like a pitcher (כַֹּדֹ), and chirp like a cricket; Cant. R. to II, 14. Pesik. Aḥăré, p. 176ᵇ קוּלְתִיךְ; Keth. 62ᵇ קוּלְתִךְ, a. e., v. מְלֵי. B. Mets. 84ᵇ; Snh. 103ᵃ [read:] באתר דמרי ביתא תלא זייניה תמן רעיא קוּלְתֵיה תלא (Var. quot. in Rashi קוּדְּתֵיה, v. קוּדָּא; כולבא, or קולבא, קולבאי, a gloss for זייניה, or the reverse) where the master of the house hangs up his armor, the shepherd hangs up his pitcher (said of an unworthy successor of a distinguished man); Lev. R. s. 4; Koh. R. to III, 16, v. כּוּלָב [where correct pitcher for bag]; a. e.—Pl. m. קוּלַיָּא, קוּלַיָּה. Esth. R. to I, 8 חמרא דק׳ wine from jars, opp. דזיקין kept in leather bottles.
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 2 distinct written forms H6964 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ק֨וֹלָיָ֧ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:7 | 1 |
| קֽוֹלָיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 29:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6964, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kolaiah). 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
(voice of Jehovah).
+ A Benjamite whose descendants settled in Jerusalem after the return from the captivity. (Nehemiah 11:7) (B.C. before 536.) + The father of Ahab the false prophet, who was burnt by the king of Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:21) (B.C. before 594.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
