What Does Nehemiah 10:18 Mean?
Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
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Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,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.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.The one who has an ear, let him hear and respond to what the breath says to the assemblies. To the one who overcomes I will give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble, and upon the pebble a new name written, which no one knows except the one who takes it.THE THREAD
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours; yours is the governance, O LORD, and you are lifted up as head above all.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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