H6270 H6270
Athlai (a personal name meaning possibly 'Yahweh is exalted')
A personal name in Ezra 10:28, identifying one of the Israelites who had married a foreign wife during the exile and was required to divorce her as part of Ezra's reforms. The name appears in the list of those who had violated the prohibition against intermarriage. Different from the more famous feminine name Athaliah, this masculine form appears only in this post-exilic context of religious restoration.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The masculine personal name 'Athlai' designates one of the men in the post-exilic community who had taken a foreign wife (Ezra 10:28). The name appears in Ezra's list of those required to put away foreign wives to maintain covenant fidelity. This occurrence reflects the challenges of maintaining religious identity during and after the Babylonian exile, where intermarriage with surrounding peoples was seen as threatening covenant loyalty. 1×
AR["عَتْلَايُ"]·ben["আত্লাই"]·DE["[עתלי]"]·EN["Atlay"]·FR["[עתלי]"]·heb["עתלי"]·HI["अत्लै"]·ID["Atlai"]·IT["[עתלי]"]·jav["Atlai"]·KO["아들라이"]·PT["Atlai"]·RU["Атлай"]·ES["Atlai"]·SW["na-Atlai"]·TR["Atlay"]·urd["عَتلی"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עֲתַלְיָ֫ה(וּ), עַתְלָ֑י n.pr.f. et m. (? י׳ is exalted);— 1. f. Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, mother of Ahaziah king of Judah, Γοθολια: -יָתוּ 2 K 8:26; 11:2, 20 = 2 Ch 22:2, 10, 11; 23:12, 13, 21; 24:7; -יָה 2 K 11:1, 3, 13, 14; 2 Ch 22:12. 2. m. a. 1 Ch 8:26 Ογοθολια. b. Ezr 8:7 Αθελει, A Αθλια; 𝔊L Γοθονίου (genit.). c. עַתְלָ֑י one with foreign wife Ezr 10:28, Θαλι, A Οθαλι.