H1806

Dlayah

del-aw-yaw'

Proper Name Masculine

or (prolonged) Dlayahhuw {del-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from H1802 and H3050; Jah has delivered; Delajah, the name of five Israelites:--Dalaiah, Delaiah.

Dalaiah or Delaiah = "Jehovah has drawn"

1. a priest in the time of David, leader of the 23rd course
2. a son of Shemaiah, a ruler of Judah in the time of Jeremiah in the court of Jehoiakim
3. the head of an exilic family, of uncertain pedigree, claiming to be Israelites in the time of Zerubbabel
4. a descendant of Zerubbabel
5. the son of Mehetabeel and the father of Shemaiah, a contemporary of Nehemiah