חֲכַלְיָהChăkalyâh

proper name, masculine: father of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1:1; Nehemiah 10:2)

Pronunciation: khak-al-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2446

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Nehemiah 1:1 These are the memoirs of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. In late autumn, in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign, I was at the fortress of Susa.
  • Nehemiah 10:1 The document was ratified and sealed with the following names: The governor: Nehemiah son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah.

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).