Lexicon
חֶלְדַּי
chel.day
H2469
N:N-M-P Hebrew

Heldai

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chel.day is a personal name borne by a military division leader and by an exile named among those from Babylon.

The attested uses present chel.day as a personal name: in one verse it identifies the leader over a military division, and in another it names an exile among those who came from Babylon.

Senses in use

  1. Personal name in two narrative settings · dominant

    Both occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In 1 Chronicles 27:15 the form identifies the person set over the twelfth-month division; in Zechariah 6:10 the APB renders the clause “from Heldai, from Tobiah, and from Jedaiah,” naming him among exiles who had come from Babylon.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as “Heldai” in both verses: as the person over a division in 1 Chronicles 27:15 and among exiles in Zechariah 6:10. The verse is read as a whole, but both clauses plainly use the name for a person.

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