KOLAIAH

(Ko·laiʹah) [voice of Jehovah].

1. Father of the false prophet Ahab who was among the Jews in Babylonian exile before Jerusalem’s destruction in 607 B.C.E.—Jer. 29:21; see AHAB No. 2.

2. A Benjamite and apparent ancestor of a certain Sallu residing in Jerusalem in Nehemiah’s day after the Babylonian exile.—Neh. 11:4, 7.