Strong's #6305: Pdayah (pronounced ped-aw-yaw')

or Pdayahuw {ped-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from 6299 and 3050; Jah has ransomed; Pedajah, the name of six Israelites:--Pedaiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pedâyâh / pedâyâhû

Pedaiah = "Jehovah has ransomed"

1) father of Zebudah, the wife of king Josiah and the mother of king Jehoiakim both of Judah

2) father of Zerubbabel and brother of Shealtiel who is usually called the father of Zerubbabel probably because of a lack of an heir from Shealtiel who was in the direct line of succession

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H6299 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

2 Kings 23:36: "And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah."
1 Chronicles 3:18: "Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah."
1 Chronicles 3:19: "And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah,"
1 Chronicles 27:20: "of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:"
Nehemiah 3:25: "house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh."
Nehemiah 8:4: "on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum,"
Nehemiah 11:7: "the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah,"
Nehemiah 13:13: "the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son"