Amariah = "Jehovah speaks" or "Yah(u) has promised"

1. Zadok's grandfather

2. a head priest's son in Solomon's time

3. a chief priest under Jehoshaphat

4. Hezekiah's son, great-grandfather of Zephaniah

5. a Levite in Ezra's time

6. a Levite under Hezekiah

7. a priest in Nehemiah's time

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

Benjamin = "son of the right hand"

1. Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother

2. son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin

3. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife

4. the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob

Zechariah = "Jehovah remembers"

1. 11th in order of the minor prophets; a priest, son of Berechiah and grandson of Iddo, who, along with Haggai, directed the rebuilding of the temple in the days of Zerubbabel

2. king of Israel, son of Jeroboam II

3. son of Meshelemiah of Shelemiah, a Korhite, and keeper of the north gate of the tabernacle of the congregation

4. one of the sons of Jehiel

5. a Levite of the second order in the temple band in the time of David

6. one of the princes of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat

7. son of the high priest Jehoiada, in the reign of Joash king of Judah, who was stoned in the court of the temple

8. a Kohathite Levite in the reign of Josiah

9. the leader of the sons of Pharosh who returned with Ezra

10. son of Bebai

11. one of the chiefs of the people whom Ezra summoned in council at the river Ahava; stood at Ezra's left hand when Ezra expounded the law to the people

12. one of the family of Elam who had married a foreign wife after the captivity

13. ancestor of Athaiah or Uthai

14. a Shilonite, descendant of Perez, grandfather of Athaiah

15. a priest, son of Pashur

16. the representative of the priestly family of Iddo in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua; possibly the same as 1 above

17. one of the priests, son of Jonathan, who blew with the trumpets at the dedication of the city wall by Ezra and Nehemiah

18. a chief of the Reubenites at the time of the captivity by Tiglath-pileser

19. one of the priests who accompanied the ark from the house of Obed-edom

20. son of Isshiah of Jesiah, a Kohathite Levite descended from Uzziel

21. 4th son of Hosah, of the children of Merari

22. a Manassite, father of Iddo

23. father of Jahaziel. He prophesied in the spirit

24. one of the sons of Jehoshaphat

25. a prophet in the reign of Uzziah, who appears to have acted as the king's counsellor, but of whom nothing is known

26. father of Abijah or Abi, Hezekiah's mother

27. one of the family of Asaph in the reign of Hezekiah

28. one of the rulers of the temple in the reign of Josiah

29. son of Jeberechiah who was taken by the prophet Isaiah as one of the 'faithful witnesses to record' when he wrote concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz

Judah = "praised"

1. the son of Jacob by Leah

2. the tribe descended from Judah the son of Jacob

3. the territory occupied by the tribe of Judah

4. the kingdom comprised of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin which occupied the southern part of Canaan after the nation split upon the death of Solomon

5. a Levite in Ezra's time

6. an overseer of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

7. a Levite musician in the time of Nehemiah

8. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

Jerusalem = "teaching of peace"

1. the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split

to dwell, remain, sit, abide

1. (Qal)

   1. to sit, sit down

   2. to be set

   3. to remain, stay

   4. to dwell, have one's abode

2. (Niphal) to be inhabited

3. (Piel) to set, place

4. (Hiphil)

   1. to cause to sit

   2. to cause to abide, set

   3. to cause to dwell

   4. to cause (cities) to be inhabited

   5. to marry (give an dwelling to)

5. (Hophal)

   1. to be inhabited

   2. to make to dwell

Mahalaleel = "praise of God"

1. son of Cainan and the 4th in descent from Adam in the line of Seth

2. a descendant of Perez, the son of Judah

Uzziah = "my strength is Jehovah"

1. son of king Amaziah of Judah and king of Judah himself for 52 years; also 'Azariah'

2. a Kohathite Levite and ancestor of Samuel

3. a priest of the sons of Harim who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

4. a Judaite, father of Athaiah or Uthai

5. father of Jehonathan, one of David's overseers

Athaiah = "Jehovah has helped"

1. a descendant of Judah through Perez; dwelt at Jerusalem after the return from exile in Babylon

Perez or Pharez = "breach"

1. twin son with Zarah of Judah by Tamar and ancestor of two families of Judah, the Hezronites and Hamulites; from the Hezronites came the royal line of David and Christ

Shephatiah = "Jehovah has judged"

1. a son of David by Abital; David's 5th son

2. head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel

3. another head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel

4. a Judaite, son of Mahalaleel and father of Amariah

5. a prince of Judah, son of Mattan and one of the counsellors who advised king Zedekiah of Judah to kill the prophet Jeremiah

6. the Haruphite, one of David's mighty warriors who joined him at Ziklag

7. son of Maachah and prince of the tribe of Simeon in the time of David

8. son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah and brother to his successor Jehoram