HODAVIAH

(Hod·a·viʹah) [give thanks to Jehovah].

1. One of the seven sons of Elioenai, a descendant of King Solomon through Zerubbabel.—1 Chron. 3:10, 19, 24.

2. One of the seven paternal heads of the half tribe of Manasseh.—1 Chron. 5:23, 24.

3. A Benjamite; “son of Hassenuah” and father (or ancestor) of Meshullam.—1 Chron. 9:7.

4. A Levite family head, seventy-four of whose “sons” (descendants) returned from Babylon in 537 B.C.E. and some of whom, if not all, served as supervisors in connection with the rebuilding of the temple. (Ezra 2:1, 2, 40; 3:9) Hodaviah is called Judah at Ezra 3:9 and Hodevah at Nehemiah 7:43.