Lexical Definition

‎כְּלוּהַי‎ Kᵉlûwhay (kel-oo-hah'-ee) Cheluhi ^N:N-M-P
from ‎כָּלָה‎; completed

Chelluh.

• § Chelluh = "my accomplishment"
• Keluhai, an Israelite

1) a man with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Extended Information

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.35

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כלוהי‎ Kt, ‎כְּלוּהוּ‎ Qr proper name, masculine (? √ I. ‎כלה‎) — one of those who had strange wives Ezra 10:35, ᵐ5 Ξελκεια, A Ξελια, ᵐ5^L Ξελιασονβ.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References

Profile

Male • Returned divorcee • A man who married a foreign woman

Man living at the time of Exile and Return

Cheluhi was among those who married foreign women during the Exile. (Ezr.10.35)

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.35;
• only referred to as Cheluhi כְּלוּהַי.

Cheluhi is briefly mentioned in Ezra 10:35 as one of the men who had married foreign women during the Babylonian Exile. He was among those who agreed to put away their foreign wives and children in response to Ezra's call for repentance and obedience to God's law.

All entries for Cheluhi: כְּלוּהַי