HODIAH, HODIJAH*
1. A man of Judah mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:19.
2, 3, 4. Three of the men who signed the covenant of Ezra (Neh 10:10, 13, 18) bear this name; two of them are perhaps among those who interpreted the covenant to the people at Ezra’s public reading of the law (8:7) and stood upon the stairs of the Levites during the service of covenant renewal (9:5).