Kelaiah — Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

A Levite who was guilty of marrying a pagan wife (Ezr 10:18). According to verse 23 Kelaiah is also called Kelita. A Levite named Kelita is also found in Nehemiah 8:7, 10:10, and 1 Esdras 9:48, where he is one who helped Ezra in expounding the law and who set his seal on Ezra’s covenant. It cannot be determined with certainty whether Kelaiah and Kelita are the same individual.

Show passage in OET: EZR 10:18

OET-RV EZR 10:18

18 Some of the priests’ descendants had married foreign women, i.e., the descendants of Yotsadak’s son Yeshua and his brothers, Ma’aseyah, Eliezer, Yariv, and Gedalyah,

OET-LV EZR 10:18

18 And_it _was _found from_(the)_sons of_the _priests who they _had _married women foreign from_(the)_sons of _Yēshūˊa/(Jeshua) the _son _of Yōʦādāq/(Jozadak) and_brothers _of_his Maˊₐsē^yāh and_ʼElīˊezer and_Yārīⱱ/(Jarib) and_Gədal^yāh.

Show passage in OET: EZR 10:23

OET-RV EZR 10:23

• 23 Among the other Levites: Yozavad, and Shimei, and Kelayah (that is, Kelita), Petahyah, Yehudah (Judah), and Eliezer.

OET-LV EZR 10:23

23 And_from the_Lēviyyiy Yōzāⱱād and_Shimˊī and_Qēlā^yāh it is_Qəlīţāʼ Pətaḩ^yāh Yəhūdāh/(Judah) and_ʼElīˊezer.

Show passage in OET: NEH 8:7

OET-RV NEH 8:7

7 Then Yeshua, Bani, Shereveyah, Yamin, Akuv, Shabtay, Hodiyah, Ma’aseyah, Kelita, Azaryah, Yozavad, Hanan, Pelayah, who were all Levites, explained what had been read to the people standing there.

OET-LV NEH 8:7

7 And_Yēshūˊa/(Jeshua) and_Bānī and_Shērēⱱə^yāh Yāmīn/(Jamin) ˊAqqūⱱ Shabtay Hōdiy^yāh Maˊₐsē^yāh Qəlīţāʼ ˊAzar^yāh Yōzāⱱād/(Jozabad) Ḩānān Pəlā^yāh and_the_Lēviyyiy were_causing _to _understand DOM the_people (to)_law and_the_people were_at place _of_their.

Show passage in OET: NEH 10:10

OET-RV NEH 10:10

• 10 their brothers Shevanyah, Hodiyah, Kelita, Pelayah, and Hanan,

OET-LV NEH 10:11

11  And_brothers _of_their Shəⱱan^yāh Hodiah Qəlīţāʼ Pəlā^yāh Ḩānān.

Show passage in OET: GES 9:48

OET-RV GES 9:48

48 Also Yeshua (Jesus), Annus, Shereveyah, Yamin, Akuv, Shabtay, Hodiyah, Maiannas, Kelita, Azaryah, Yozavad, Hananyah, and Pelayah, the Levites, taught the master’s law, and read to the multitude the master’s law, explaining what was read.

OET-LV GES 9:48

48 Yaʸsous, and Anniouth, and Sarabias, and Yadinos, and Yakoubos, ⟦Σαβαταῖος⟧, Autaias, Maiannas, and Kalitas, Azarias, and Iōzabdos, and Ananias, Falias, the/this/who Leuitai, to_teach the/this/who law of_the lord, and to/with the/this/who multitude ⟦ἀνεγίνωσκον⟧ the/this/who law of_the lord, ⟦ἐμφυσιοῦντες⟧ together the/this/who reading.

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