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HELDAI.—1. The captain of the military guard appointed for the twelfth monthly course of the Temple service (1Ch_27:15). He is probably to be identified with ‘Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite,’ one of David’s thirty heroes (2Sa_23:29). In the parallel list (1Ch_11:30) the name is more correctly given as Heled. The form Heldai is supported by Zec_6:10, and should probably be restored in the other two passages. 2. According to Zec_6:10, one of a small band who brought gifts of gold and silver from Babylon to those of the exiles who had returned under Zerubbabel. From these gifts Zechariah was told to make a crown for Joshua the high priest, which was to be placed in the Temple as a memorial of Heldai and his companions. In v. 14 Helem is clearly an error for Heldai.