PELATIAH pĕl’ ə tī’ ə (פְּלﯴנִֽי, Yahweh delivers). 1. A descendant of Solomon, grandson of Zerubbabel (1 Chron 3:21).

2. A Simeonite who helped destroy the Amalekite remnant at Mount Seir in the time of Hezekiah (1 Chron 4:42).

3. Son of Benaiah, one of the two princes whom Ezekiel pictured as giving “wicked counsel” during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, and who fell dead while Ezekiel prophesied (Ezek 11:1, 13).

4. One who sealed the covenant under Nehemiah (Neh 10:22).