pe.la.yah is a personal name appearing in lists, including a Levite group that helped people understand the law.

The supplied occurrences present pe.la.yah as a proper personal name: it appears in a list of Levites helping the people understand the law and in another list of names.

1. Personal name in named lists · dominant

   Both forms are tagged Noun · Proper. In Nehemiah 8:7, the name occurs among those identified with the Levites, and the APB renders that they “helped the people understand the law”; in Nehemiah 10:11, it appears in the APB's list, “Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,”.

   Nehemiah 8:7Nehemiah 10:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Nehemiah 8:7, the APB includes “Pelaiah” within the named group that helped the people understand the law. In Nehemiah 10:11, the supplied APB text gives a list of names but does not visibly isolate this term.