Pethahiah [Pĕtha hī'ah]—jehovah hath set free.

1. A priest whose family was appointed by David to the nineteenth course (1 Chron. 24:16).
2. A Levite who had married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:23).
3. Another Levite who regulated the devotions of the people (Neh. 9:5). Perhaps the same as No. 2.
4. A son of Meshezabeel, of the family of Zorah, and an official of the king of Persia for all matters concerning the returned exiles (Neh. 11:24).