Shephatiah shef-a-ti'-a, she-fat'-ya (shephaTyah, "Yah has judged"):
(1) A son of David, by Abital (2 Samuel 3:4, 1 Chronicles 3:3).
(2) A Benjamite, father of Meshullam, of Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 9:8).
(3) A Benjamite, who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:5).
(4) A prince of the Simeonites in the time of David (1 Chronicles 27:16).
(5) A son of King Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 21:2).
(6) A family, 372 of whom returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:4, Nehemiah 7:9); 80 more males of this family, with their head, returned with Ezra (Ezra 8:8).
(7) A servant of Solomon, 392 of whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:57, Nehemiah 7:59); "Saphat" in Ezra 5:9 and "Saphatias" in Ezra 8:34.
(8) A Perezzite (Judahite), some of whose descendants dwelt at Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 11:4).
(9) A son of Mattan, a contemporary of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1).
James Orr