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1. Pethahiah: PETHAHIAH peth-a-hi'-a (Pethachyah, "Yah opens up"): (1) Chief of the 19th course of priests (1 Chronicles 24:16). (2) One of the Levites having "foreign wives" (Ezra 10:23; Nehemiah 9:5; "Patheus" in 1 Esdras 9 ... [100%] 1915-01-01
2. Eber Ben Pethahiah: Moravian scholar; lived in Ungarisch-Brod at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Steinschneider indicates the possibility of the name being merely a pseudonym. It appears on the title-page of "Mar'eh ha-Ketab we-Rashe Tebot," a guide ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Pethahiah B. Jacob Ha-Laban (Called Also Pethahiah Of Regensburg): Traveler; born at Prague; flourished between 1175 and 1190. He journeyed from Ratisbon (Regensburg) to the East, traveling through Poland, southern Russia, Armenia, Persia, Babylon, and Palestine. His notes of the journey, part of which he had mislaid in Bohemia ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [47%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
4. Baer, Issachar Ben Pethahiah Ben Moses: Cabalist; lived at Kremnitz, Hungary, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He seems to have traveled in the East and sojourned some time at Safed; and he frequently refers in his writings to the cabalistic school established in that ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Isserlein (Isserlin), Israel Ben Pethahiah Ashkenazi: The foremost Talmudic authority of Germany in the first half of the fifteenth century; born in the last decade of the fourteenth century, probably at Ratisbon; died at Neustadt, near Vienna, 1460. Isserlein belonged to an old family of scholars ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]