hō̇-dē´va, hō´dē̇-va (הודוה, hoÌ„dhewaÌ„h, הודיה, hoÌ„dheyaÌ„h, “splendor of Yahâ€): A Levite and founder of a Levite family, seventy-four of whom returned from exile with Zerubbabel, 538 bc (). the American Revised Version, margin gives as another reading “Hodeiah.†In he is called Hodaviah, of which Hodevah and Hodeiah are slight textual corruptions, and in Judah, a name practically synonymous.