Maaidiah
Maaidiah
(Heb. Maadyah’, , ornament of Jehovah; Septuag. ,Vulg. Madia), one of the priests who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Neh 12:5); evidently the same with the MOADIAH (Heb. Moady’ah’, , festival of Jehovah; Sept. Vulg. Moadia), whose son Piltai is mentioned in Neh 12:17 (where some connection with one Miniamin is obscurely noted); the true pointing being perhaps , Moadyah’, which will make both forms coincide. B.C. 536.