Chabris (Hastings' Dictionary)

One of the three rulers of Bethulia, Jth G'" 8"> 10". CHADIASAI (U ol XaStdaai, A Xaidaat, AV they of Chadias), 1 Es 5^.— They are mentioned with the Ammidioi as returning, to the number of 422, with Zerub. There are no corresponding names in the lists of Ezra and Neh. Fritzsche [Exeg. Handb. in loc.) identifies them with the iieople of Kedesh in Judah (Jos 15==*). H. St. J. Thackeray. CH.ffiREAS (Xaip^aj, AV Chereas) was brother of Timotheus, the leader of the Ammonites, and held command at the fortress of Gazara, i.e. prob- ably Jazcr in the trans-Jordanic territoi-y (see 1 ilac b'^'"). Chajreas was slain upon the capture of Gazara by Judas Maccabseus (2 Mac lO^^-"). H. A. White.