1. Gedaliah (personal name) — The proper name Gedaliah (Hebrew גְּדַלְיָה / גְּדַלְיָהוּ, 'YHWH is great'), borne by several individuals including: (1) Gedaliah son of Ahikam, appointed governor of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar after the fall of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:22-25; Jeremiah 39-41); (2) a Levite musician, son of Jeduthun (1 Chronicles 25:3, 9); (3) a priest who had married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:18); (4) grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah (Zephaniah 1:1). The two sense clusters differ only by the prefixed conjunction waw ('and Gedaliah') versus the bare name. Rendered uniformly: English 'Gedalyahu/Gedalyah', Spanish 'Gedalyah/Gedalias', Hindi गदल्याह, Arabic جَدَلْيَا, Korean 게달리야/그달리야, Swahili 'Gedaliya/Gedalia'. 6×
AR["جَدَلْيَا","وَ-جَدَلْيَا"]·ben["আর-গদলিয়","গদলিয়","গদলিয়ের"]·DE["Gedalja","und-Gedalja"]·EN["Gedalyah","Gedalyahu","and-Gedalyah"]·FR["Guedalia","[וגדליה]"]·heb["גדליה","ו-גדליה"]·HI["और-गदल्याह","गदल्याह","गदल्याह-के"]·ID["Gedalya","dan-Gedalya"]·IT["Ghedalia","[וגדליה]"]·jav["Gedalya","Gédalya","lan-Gedalya"]·KO["게달리야","그달리야","그리고-거달리아"]·PT["Gedalyah","e-Gedalyah"]·RU["Гедалии","Гедальи","и-Гедальяху"]·ES["Gedalyah","Gedalías","y-Gedalyah"]·SW["Gedalia","Gedaliya","na-Gedalia"]·TR["Gedalya'nın","Gedalya'ya","Gedalya'yı","ve-Gedalya"]·urd["اور-جدَلیاہ","جدلیاہ","جدلیاہ-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† גְּדַלְיָה n.pr.m. (Yah is great)— 1. governor of Judea appointed by Nebuchadnezzar Je 40:5, 8; 41:16. 2. son of Amariah, a son of Hezekiah Zp 1:1. 3. priest of the sons of Jeshua Ezr 10:18.