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Meaning and etymology of the name Jehiah
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Jehiah 
The name Jehiah occurs only once in the Bible. In 1 Chronicles 15:24 he and Obed-edom are somewhat oddly added to a list of names of people who made preparations to move the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark had been swiped by the Philistines, had been brought back to Israel and had been parked in the house of Abinadab at Kiriath-jearim. The subsequent wrongful transportation of the Ark cost Uzza his life and the Ark was placed in the care of Obed-edom for three months. After that it was correctly moved to Jerusalem and was placed in David's tabernacle (1 Chronicles 16:1).
The name Jehiah is generally understood to consist of two parts.
The first part of our name comes from the verb  (haya), meaning to live, have life, stay alive, etcetera. This obviously highly potent verb yields quite a few derivatives, some of which are:
 (hay), meaning either living or kinsfolk.
(hayya), meaning either living things or community, and as adjective, having the vigor of life; lively.
The name Jehiah may be regarded as the verb or one of the derivatives prefixed with the letter yod, which either makes the verb active (He Will Live) or possessive (My Liveliness, My Community). Still, most if not all commentators insist that the latter part of the name Jehiah comes from  , Jah, which in turn is an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton; the name of the Lord: YHWH.
For a meaning of the name Jehiah, NOBS Study Bible Name List reads Yahweh Lives and BDB Theological Dictionary suggests May Yah Live. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has He Lives Of The Lord, and relates this name to the name Eve, but that's disputed.
Related names are
Hiel and
Jehiel.
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