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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Haggiah


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Haggiah Haggiah

The name Haggiah occurs only once in the Bible, and that in a name-list. So we know that Haggiah exists but we don't know who he is, except that he was grandson of Levi and a son of Merari. The sub-tribe of Merari carried the framework of the tabernacle in the wandering years. Later this family was assigned twelve cities (Josh 21:7) and became important in the worship services in the pre-Temple period (1 Chr 6:31-47).

The name Haggiah consists of two parts. The last chunk is yah, the abbreviated form of the Name of the Lord: YHWH (YHWH). The first part of the name comes from the verb hagag (hagag 602), celebrate, hold a feast, but note that the feasts in the Bible always has a ritualistic connotation. The noun hag (hag 602a) means feast.

The name Haggiah means Feast Of Yah. Some scholar think that the name Haggai is the abbreviated form of Haggiah.

The phrase where the name Haggiah comes from is Hag YHWH, Feast Of YHWH or Feast Of The Lord, which occurs in Ex 10:9, Le 23:39, Jud 21:19 and Ho 9:5.



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