Man living at the time of Exile and Return
Siaha (or Sia) was the ancestor of a family of temple servants who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile.
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Also known as Sia
Siaha (or Sia) is mentioned in Ezr.2.44 and Neh.7.47 as the ancestor of a family of temple servants (Nethinim) who were among the exiles that returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. The temple servants were a group of people assigned to assist the Levites in the maintenance and service of the temple. Siaha's descendants are listed among the temple servants who returned to Jerusalem, indicating that they had a hereditary role in serving at the temple. The return of Siaha's family, along with other exiles, was part of the restoration of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the temple after the Babylonian captivity.
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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
2 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H5517
the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon,
the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Sia, the descendants of Padon,
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