Strong's #6611: Pthachyah (pronounced peth-akh-yaw')

from 6605 and 3050; Jah has opened; Pethachjah, the name of four Israelites:--Pethakiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pethachyâh

Pethahiah = "freed by Jehovah"

1) a priest, in charge of the 19th course, in the time of David

2) a Levite and returning exile who had married a foreign wife; probably the same as 3

3) a Levite who helped lead in the confession of the people in the time of Ezra; probably the same as 2

4) son of Meshezabeel, descendant of Zerah the son of Judah; deputy of the king in all matters concerning the people

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H6605 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

1 Chronicles 24:16: "The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,"
Ezra 10:23: "and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer."
Nehemiah 9:5: "Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless"
Nehemiah 11:24: " And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah,"