HABAIAH or HOBAIAH ():

By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn

Head of a family of priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel; not being able to prove their genealogy, they were excluded from the priesthood (Ezra ii. 61; Neh. vii. 63). In I Esd. v. 38 the name is given as "Obdia."

E. G. H. M. Sel.