1. A Levite (1Es 5:58); called in Ezr 3:9 Judah; elsewhere Hodaviah, Ezr 2:40; Hodevah, Ne 7:43; Sudias, 1Es 5:26. 2. An ancestor of Jesus (Lu 3:26).
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
And Jeshua stood up, his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, as one man, to superintend the workmen in the house of God; also the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren, the Levites.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodvah, seventy-four.