Delaiah

Mentioned in 605 BC traditional (Jones)

A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah’s first roll of prophecy was read (Jer. 36:12).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Shemaiah
Tagged in: 2 verses

Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Elnathan, Gemariah, Achbor, Elishama, Hananiah, Shaphan, Shemaiah, and Zedekiah.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 630–580 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

Jeremiah2

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Delaiah 7
KJV	Delaiah 6
ASV	Delaiah 7

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

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Jeremiah2 verses

36:12
he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
36:25
Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.