Pedaiah = "Jehovah has ransomed"<OL TYPE="1"><LI>father of Zebudah, the wife of king Josiah and the mother of king Jehoiakim both of Judah<LI>father of Zerubbabel and brother of Shealtiel who is usually called the father of Zerubbabel probably because of a lack of an heir from Shealtiel who was in the direct line of succession</OL>