Personal name meaning, sabbatical. Levite who explained the law to the people as Ezra read it (Neh 8:7). He or a namesake opposed Ezra’s plan of divorce for foreign wives (Ezra 10:15). He was in charge of external business of the house of God (Neh 11:16): either maintaining outward appearance of the Temple or collecting the tithes.
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