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Mahseiah
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Mahseiah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
grandfather of Baruch, secretary of Jeremiah
Hebrew
Strongs #04271: hyoxm Machceyah
Maaseiah = "Jehovah is a shelter"1) a priest and ancestor of Baruch, the friend and scribe of Jeremiah
2) ancestor of Seraiah who carried Jeremiah's book to Babylon
4271 Machceyah makh-say-yaw'
from 4268 and 3050; refuge of (i.e. in) Jah; Machsejah, anIsraelite:-Maaseiah.
see HEBREW for 04268
see HEBREW for 03050
MAHSEIAH [ISBE]
MAHSEIAH - ma-se'-ya, ma-si'-a (machceyah, "Yah a refuge"): Grandfather of Baruch (Jer 32:12) and of Seraiah (Jer 51:59). The name (not to be confused with MAASEIAH (which see) as the King James Version has done even in the above passages) is spelt "Maaseas" (which see) in Baruch 1:1.