Phaseah

The name traditionally spelled Phaseah appears in UPDV as Paseah. He is an ancestor of a Nethinim family that returned from Babylonian captivity, and the father of a man who helped rebuild Jerusalem's wall.

A Family Returned from Captivity

The roster of those who came back with Zerubbabel includes the line: "the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai," (Ezr 2:49). Nehemiah's parallel list of returnees keeps the same name in the same neighborhood of the catalog: "the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah" (Ne 7:51). Paseah names the household, not an individual; the family persists into the post-exilic community as one identifiable clan among the temple servants.

Father of Joiada

The wall-building register names a son: "And the old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars" (Ne 3:6). Joiada the son of Paseah works on the old gate — beams, doors, bolts, bars — the kind of detail that lets a returned family take its measurable place in the rebuilt city.