brother

1. brother of same parents

2. half-brother (same father)

3. relative, kinship, same tribe

4. each to the other (reciprocal relationship)

5. (fig.) of resemblance

Asaph = "gatherer"

1. the father of Hezekiah's secretary

2. a son of Berechiah, chief Levite musician under David

3. a Persian officer over the royal forest

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Bakbukiah = "wasting of Jehovah"

1. a Levite in the time of Nehemiah

Galal = "influential"

1. a Levite, one of the sons of Asaph

2. a third Levite, son of Jeduthun

Zabdi = "endowment"

1. son of Zerah and grandson of Judah; grandfather of Achan

2. one of the sons of Shimhi, a Benjamite

3. an officer of David, in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine-cellars

4. son of Asaph the minstrel; also called 'Zaccur' and 'Zichri'

to throw, shoot, cast

1. (Qal) to shoot (arrows)

2. (Piel) to cast, cast down, throw down

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to give thanks,, laud, praise

   2. to confess, confess (the name of God)

4. (Hithpael)

   1. to confess (sin)

   2. to give thanks

Jeduthun = "praising"

1. a Levite of the family of Merari and the chief of one of the 3 choirs of the temple whose descendants also formed one of the perpetual temple choirs; he is named at the beginning of 3 Psalms (39, 62, 77) either as the composer or the recipient of those Psalms but most likely as the leader of the choir by which those Psalms were to be sung

Micha = "who is like God"

1. son of Mephibosheth

2. a Levite who signed the covenant with Nehemiah

3. father of Mattaniah, a Gershonite Levite and descendant of Asaph

Micah or Micaiah or Michah = "who is like God"

1. the 6th in order of the minor prophets; a native of Moresheth, he prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, and was contemporary with the prophets Hosea, Amos, and Isaiah

2. an Ephraimite during the period of the judges

3. a descendant of Joel the Reubenite

4. son of Meribbaal and grandson of Jonathan

5. a Kohathite Levite, the eldest son of Uzziel the brother of Amram

6. father of Abdon, a man of high station in the reign of Josiah

7. son of Imlah and a prophet of Samaria who predicted the defeat and death of king Ahab of Israel

double, copy, second, repetition

1. double

2. copy (of law)

3. second (in order)

   1. second rank

   2. second in age

4. second quarter or district

Mattaniah = "gift of Jehovah"

1. the original name of the last king of Judah before the captivity; also known as 'Zedekiah'

2. a Levite, son of Heman, whose office was to blow the horns in the temple service as appointed by David

3. a Levite of the family of Asaph

4. a Levite of the family of Asaph who assisted in the purification of the temple in the reign of Hezekiah

5. a Levite of the family of Asaph who took part in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem; leader of the temple choir

6. a Levite, descendant of Asaph and ancestor of Jahaziel in the time of Jehoshaphat

7. another Levite in the time of Nehemiah

8. a Levite, father of Zaccur and ancestor of Hanan the under-treasurer who had charge of the offerings in the time of Nehemiah

9. a man of the sons of Elam who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

10. a man of the sons of Zattu who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

11. a man descended from Pahath-moab who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

12. a man of the sons of Bani who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

Abda = "servant of Jehovah"

1. father of Adoniram

2. a Levite, son of Shammua; also called 'Obadiah'

head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning

1. head (of man, animals)

2. top, tip (of mountain)

3. height (of stars)

4. chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)

5. head, front, beginning

6. chief, choicest, best

7. head, division, company, band

8. sum

Shammua = "renowned"

1. son of Zaccur and the spy from the tribe of Reuben

2. son of David by his wife Bathsheba

   1. also 'Shammuah' and 'Shimea'

3. a Levite, son of Galal and father of Abda who lived in Jerusalem after the return from exile in the time of Nehemiah

   1. also 'Shemaiah'

4. a priest, head of the family of Bilgah in the time of Joiakim after the return from exile

beginning, first

1. the first time

2. from the beginning, in the beginning (with prep)

prayer

1. prayer

2. pray a prayer

3. house of prayer

4. hear prayer

5. in Ps titles (of poetic or liturgical prayer)