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Melatiah meaning

Melatiah in Biblical Hebrew
מלטיה
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🔼The name Melatiah: Summary

Meaning
Yah Delivered
Etymology
From (1) the verb מלט (malat), to deliver, and (2) יה (yah), the name of the Lord.
Related names
• Via מלט (malat): Lot, Lotan
• Via יה (yah): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of yah-names.

🔼The name Melatiah in the Bible

The name Melatiah occurs only once in the Bible. In Nehemiah 3:7 we meet Melatiah the Gibeonite helping with the repairs to the wall of Jerusalem, just after the return from the Babylonian exile.

🔼Etymology of the name Melatiah

The name Melatiah consists of two elements, the final one being the familiar theonym יה (yah), which is short for יהוה or YHWH.

The first part of our name comes from the verb מלט (malat), meaning to deliver from a dangerous and confined space, situation or condition:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
לוט

The verb לוט (lut) means to wrap closely or to envelop. Noun לט (lat) or לאט (la't) means secrecy. Noun לוט (lot) means covering.

מלט

The verb מלט (malat) means to deliver from confinement or dangerous predicament.

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🔼Melatiah meaning

For a meaning of the name Melatiah, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Yahweh Has Set Free. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has Delivered Of The Lord. And BDB Theological Dictionary proposes Yahweh Delivered.