BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2412
cha.ti.pah — Hatipha
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.54 § Hatipha = "seized" head of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Captured, one of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:54).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
