Eliashib = "God restores"

1. a priest in David's reign

2. a descendant of David

3. a high priest in Nehemiah's time

4. a temple singer with foreign wife

5. one of the line of Zattu

6. one of the line of Bani

Vaniah = "Jehovah is praise"

1. one of the sons of Bani, in the time of Ezra, who took a foreign wife

Meremoth = "elevations"

1. a priest, son of Uriah of the family of Koz active in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and in the 7th course of temple service in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah

2. a priest in the time of Zerubbabel

3. a returning exile of the family of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra