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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

bi'-a-tas (Phalias; Codex Alexandrinus, Phiathas): the Revised Version (British and American) "Phalias," one of the Levites (1 Esdras 9:48) who "taught (the people) the law of the Lord, making them withal to understand it." Called Pelaiah in Ne 8:7.