What Does Nehemiah 10:18 Mean in the King James?

Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

Nehemiah 10:18 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The list makes covenant personal: each name remains distinct, and Hodijah carries the sense of Yah’s majesty.

THE MEANING

These names speak of belonging without anonymity: each person has a place in a shared commitment. Hodijah’s name carries the sense of Yah’s majesty, so even this brief line holds identity and devotion together.

THE ROOT

הוֹדִיָּה

Hodiyyah

GROWS FROM

הוד

h-w-d

Splendor or majesty; the name is commonly understood as “majesty of Yah.”

“Hodijah” in this verse is Hodiyyah. The name’s first element, hôd, means majesty or splendor. The same word describes the LORD’s majesty elsewhere, so the name can place that quality within a person’s identity; some readings also connect the name with thanksgiving to Yah.

ALSO GROWS

hôd: Majesty, splendor.

הוֹד

This is the name’s central element and gives Hodijah a sense beyond a bare label.

Hodiyyah: A name commonly understood as “majesty of Yah”; also associated in some readings with thanksgiving to Yah.

הוֹדִיָּה

The name carries its root into a personal identity, joining human distinctness with reference to Yah.

THE PATTERN

Scriptural names carry meaning into a person’s identity rather than serving only as labels.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVThe changed name carries a new identity and calling within it.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe name Jesus is joined directly to the work and nature expressed through it.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Revelation 2:17 · KJVThe received name expresses an identity known personally, not reduced to an outward label.

THE THREAD

Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

1 Chronicles 29:11 · KJV

The word translated “majesty” here is hôd, the root element in Hodijah. That shared word lets the name carry a trace of the majesty this verse names as belonging to the LORD.

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