Bible Dictionary

Noadiah

Meeting with the Lord. (1.) A Levite who returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:33). (2.) A false prophetess who assisted Tobiah and Sanballat against the Jews (Neh. 6:14). Being bribed by them, she tried to …

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Meeting with the Lord. (1.) A Levite who returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:33). (2.) A false prophetess who assisted Tobiah and Sanballat against the Jews (Neh. 6:14). Being bribed by them, she tried to stir up discontent among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and so to embarrass Nehemiah in his great work of rebuilding the ruined walls of the city.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

NOADI'AH (whom Jehovah meets). A Levite. Ezr 8:33. A prophetess upon whom Nehemiah invoked the vengeance of God for her attempt to hinder him in his work of reconstruction. Neh 6:14.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

witness, or ornament, of the Lord