(Me·shezʹa·bel).

1. A man of Judah of the family of Zerah and whose “son” Pethahiah “was at the side of the king for every matter of the people.”​—Ne 11:24.

2. Father of Berechiah and ancestor of the Meshullam who did repair work on the wall of Jerusalem in Nehemiah’s day.​—Ne 3:4.

3. One of “the heads of the people,” or his descendant, who attested by seal the “trustworthy arrangement” of Nehemiah’s time.​—Ne 9:38; 10:1, 14, 21.