BILGAH

(Bilʹgah) [cheerfulness].

1. Head of the fifteenth of the twenty-four priestly service divisions when David reorganized the sanctuary service.—1 Chron. 24:1, 14.

2. A priest who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. (Neh. 12:1, 5, 7) In the following generation the head of his paternal house was Shammua.—Neh. 12:12, 18, 26.