Definition

Melatjah, a Gibeonite

Etymology

from H4423 (מֶלֶט) and H3050 (יָהּ); (whom) Jah has delivered;

Word family

• מֶלֶט meleṭ
• יָהּ Yâhh

How the KJV renders it

• Melatiah

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.