Habaiah, Hobaiah
Habaiah, Hobaiah
ha-baya, (, ha-bhayah, , hobhayah): A post-exilic priestly family which was unable to establish its pedigree. Habaiah is the form in Ezr 2:61; in the parallel passage (Neh 7:63), the King James Version has Habaiah, and the Revised Version (British and American) Hobaiah; in the parallel passage in 1 Esdras 5:38, the form is , Obdia, Codex Vaticanus, Obbeia.