HODAVIAH

(Hod·a·viʹah).

1. One of the seven sons of Elioenai, a descendant of King Solomon.​—1Ch 3:10, 24.

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

3. A Benjamite; “son of Hassenuah” and father, or ancestor, of Meshullam.​—1Ch 9:7.

4. A Levite family head, 74 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. (Ezr 2:1, 2, 40; 3:9) Hodaviah is called Judah at Ezra 3:9 and Hodevah at Nehemiah 7:43.