Jesiah

Jesiah (also Ishiah, Ishijah, Isshiah, Isshijah, Jeshaiah) is a name found in the Bible.[1] The Hebrew form of the name is yishshayah (in one case yishshayahu), meaning "man of Jah."[2] The Bible contains five figures by this name.[2]

  • Jesiah son of Izrahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Tola, son of Issachar, found in a genealogy of the Tribe of Issachar.[3]
  • Jesiah, a Korahite and member of the Tribe of Benjamin, listed among the warriors who came to David at Ziklag.[4]
  • Jesiah, leader of the "sons of Rehabiah," a Levite in the time of David.[5]
  • Jesiah, son of Uzziel, son of Kohath, son of Levi. This Jesiah is recorded as being the father of Zechariah.[6]
  • Jesiah, one of the "descendants of Harim," found in a list of men who took foreign wives in the time of Nehemiah.[7]

References
  1. On all the various forms of the name, see T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) [1899]. "Isshiah". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 2, E–K. New York: The Macmillan Company.
  2. T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) [1899]. "Isshiah". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 2, E–K. New York: The Macmillan Company.
  3. 1 Chronicles 7:1–3
  4. 1 Chronicles 12:1–6
  5. 1 Chronicles 24:21, 26:25
  6. 1 Chronicles 23:20, 12, 6. 1 Chronicles 24:25.
  7. Ezra 10:31
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