Joiada

Easton's Bible Dictionary

One of the high priests (12:10,11,22).

Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Joiada'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/joiada.html. 1897.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Nehemiah 13:28; Nehemiah 12:11-22. High-priest after his father Eliashib. His son married the Horonite Sanballat's daughter.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Nehemiah 3:6Nehemiah 12:10-1112:22Nehemiah 13:28Leviticus 21:14

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

JOIADA. 1. One of the two who repaired the ‘old gate’ ( Nehemiah 3:6 ). 2. High priest, son of Eliashib ( Nehemiah 12:10-11; Nehemiah 12:22 ). One of his sons married the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite ( Nehemiah 13:28 f.).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Son of Eliashib, a descendant of Jeshua the priest. Nehemiah 12:10,11,22; Nehemiah 13:28 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

joi´a - da ( יוידע , yōyādhā‛ , "Yahweh knows"; compare Jehoiada ):

(1) A repairer of the Jerusalem walls (Nehemiah 3:6 ); the King James Version "Jehoiada."

(2) Son of Eliashib the high priest (Nehemiah 12:10 , Nehemiah 12:11 , Nehemiah 12:22; Nehemiah 13:28 ).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Joi´ada (contraction of Jehoiada, which see), a high-priest of the Jews, successor to Eliashib, or Joashib, who lived under Nehemiah, about B.C. 434 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Yoyadats', יויָדָע, a contraction of JEHOIADA, found only in Nehemiah, who invariably uses it), the name of two men.

1. (Sept. Ι᾿ωειδά v.r. Ι᾿ωιδά, Vulg. Jojada, A. Vers. "Jehoiada.") Son of Paseah, and apparently one of the chief priests; in conjunction with Meshullam he repaired the Old Gate, (See Jerusalem), with its appurtenances, after the captivity (Nehemiah 3:6). B.C. 446.

2. (Sept. Ι᾿ωαδά v.r. Ι᾿ωιαδά, Ι᾿ωδαέ .) Son and successor of Eliashib in the high priesthood, himself succeeded by his son Jonathan (Nehemiah 12:10-11; Nehemiah 12:22); another of his sons having married a daughter of Sanballat, on which account he was banished (Nehemiah 13:28). B.C. post 446. Josephus (Ant. 11, 7, 1) Graecizes the name as Judas (Ι᾿ούδας ). (See High Priest).