יְחִיָּה

# Jehiah: A Minor Biblical Figure Jehiah (Hebrew: יְחִיָּה) appears in the Hebrew Bible exactly four times, making it a rarely attested proper name rather than a common word with semantic range. As a personal name, it does not carry the kind of lexical meaning that would apply across different contexts—it functions solely as a designation for a specific individual or individuals in biblical narrative. The minimal frequency of this name's occurrence suggests it belonged to a person or persons of limited prominence in biblical history or tradition. Without access to the specific passages in which Jehiah appears, the lexical data alone cannot determine whether these four occurrences refer to a single individual mentioned multiple times or to different people sharing the same name. The name's rarity means it would have held particular significance only to those communities directly familiar with the person or persons it identified. For modern readers, Jehiah exemplifies how the biblical text preserves names of minor figures whose roles or prominence did not require extensive documentation. The name survives in the biblical record, but the lexicon entry itself provides no semantic content beyond identification—it is a label rather than a word carrying meaning that could be translated, defined, or analyzed for theological or linguistic significance beyond its proper noun function.