HODAVIAH

1. Postexilic descendant of David (1 Chr 3:24).

2. Chieftain of Manasseh’s half-tribe east of the Jordan (1 Chr 5:24).

3. Hassenuah’s son and the father of Meshullam from Benjamin’s tribe (1 Chr 9:7).

4. Progenitor of a family of Levites who returned with the exiles from Babylon (Ezr 2:40); alternately called Judah in Ezra 3:9 and Hodevah in Nehemiah 7:43.