H1806 דְּלָיָה
Dᵉlâyâh — Delajah, the name of five Israelites
KJV: Dalaiah, Delaiah.
Built from דָּלָה dâlâh (to dangle, i.e. to let down abucket) + יָהּ Yâhh (Jah, the sacred name) — means “Jah has delivered”
Occurs 7 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- דְּלָיָ֫הוּ, דְּלָיָה n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath drawn)
- a a priest, contemp. David
- b a prince of Judah, contemp. Jerem.
- a head of a family contemp. with Zerubb.
- b descendant of Zerubb.
- c father of contemp. of Neh.
Where it occurs
- Jeremiah 36:12 — he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama…
- Jeremiah 36:25 — Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he…
- Ezra 2:60 — the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
- Nehemiah 6:10 — I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let…
- Nehemiah 7:62 — The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.
- 1 Chronicles 3:24 — The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Yochanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 24:18 — the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.