Ginnetho or Ginnethon = "gardener"

1. a priest among the exiles who returned with Zerubbabel and who covenanted with Nehemiah

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

Meshullam = "friend"

1. grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe

2. son of Zerubbabel

3. a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal

4. a Benjamite, father of Sallu

5. a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity

6. a Benjamite

   1. perhaps the same as 3 or 4

7. a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah

8. son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem

9. son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem

10. a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

11. father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah

    1. perhaps the same as 'Shallum'

12. a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai

13. a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

14. a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua

15. a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem

16. a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah

17. a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives

18. ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah

19. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away

20. one of the men who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

    1. maybe the same as 17

Iddo = "His witness"

1. father of Abinadab, an officer of Solomon

2. grandfather of the prophet Zechariah

3. a Gershonite Levite, son of Joah

4. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

5. a seer in the time of king Jeroboam of the northern kingdom of Israel

6. son of Zechariah, ruler of the tribe of Manasseh in the time of David

7. a chief of the temple slaves who assembled at Casiphia at the time of the 2nd caravan from Babylon