Dictionary entry

Hodevah

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ho-de'-va, ho'-de-va (hodhewah, hodheyah, "splendor of Yah"): A Levite and founder of a Levite family, seventy-four of whom returned from exile with Zerubbabel, 538 BC (Ne 7:43). the American Revised Version, margin gives as another reading "Hodeiah." InEzr 2:40he is called Hodaviah, of which Hodevah and Hodeiah are slight textual corruptions, and inEzr 3:9Judah, a name practically synonymous.