Calitas
Calitas
( and ), given as the name of one of the Levites who had taken foreign wives after the restoration from Babylon (1Es 9:23,where he is also called COLIUS), and who assisted in expounding the law to the people (1Es 9:48); evidently the KELITA SEE KELITA (q.v.) of the genuine texts (Ezr 10:23; Neh 8:7).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Calitas
CALITAS.One of the Levites who undertook to repudiate his strange wife, 1Es 9:23. He bore a second name, Colius. A Levite of the same name, and probably the same person, is mentioned in 1Es 9:48 as one of those who expounded the Law. See also Kelaiah.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Calitas
kali-tas (, Kalitas, or , Kaleitas): One of the Levites who put away their foreign wives at the request of Esdras (Ezra), 1 Esdras 9:23, Colius, who was called Calitas. It is the Greek form of Hebrew Kelita (compare parallel passage, Ezr 10:23, elaiah, the same is Kelita). He is also named with those who explained the law when read to the people by Esdras (1 Esdras 9:48; compare Neh 8:7). It is not certain whether he is to be identified with the Kelita of Neh 10:10 (one of the Levites who signed the covenant made by Nehemiah). The word probably means dwarf.