MESHEZABEL

(Me·shezʹa·bel) [God delivers].

1. A man of Judah of the family of Zerah and whose “son” Pethahiah “was at the side of the king for every matter of the people.”—Neh. 11:24.

2. Father of Berechiah and ancestor of the Meshullam who did repair work on the wall of Jerusalem in Nehemiah’s day.—Neh. 3:4.

3. One of the “heads of the people” (or his descendant) who attested by seal the “trustworthy arrangement” of Nehemiah’s time.—Neh. 9:38; 10:1, 14, 21.