בִּלְגַהBilgah

proper name, masculine: cheerfulness

Pronunciation: bil-gaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1083

Meanings

1. priest of 15th course (David's time) (1 Chronicles 24:14)

2. priest that went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:5; Nehemiah 12:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:14 The fifteenth lot fell to Bilgah. The sixteenth lot fell to Immer.
  • Nehemiah 12:5 Miniamin, Moadiah, Bilgah,
  • Nehemiah 12:18 Shammua was leader of the family of Bilgah. Jehonathan was leader of the family of Shemaiah.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).