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Person Old Testament

Hazaiah

Hazaiah was an ancestor of Maaseiah, a leader who lived in Jerusalem. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Nehemiah 11:5.

Why it matters. Ancestor of Maaseiah, who lived in Jerusalem.

Primary passages
Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Hazaiah

Hazaiah is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as an ancestor of Maaseiah, a leader who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. Maaseiah is listed among the descendants of Judah who settled in Jerusalem. No further information is provided about Hazaiah in the Bible. (Neh.11.5).

Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.

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Family

Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.

Parents
Adaiah
Children
Col-hozeh

Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • Nehemiah (1 verse)

    11:5

Record type: Person. FaithGraph explanations on this page are editorial and are not Scripture.