Delaiah: freed by Jehovah.

1. The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chronicles 24:18).
2. A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jeremiah 36:12).
3. The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 7:62).