HATIPHA

ha-ti'-fa, hat'-i-fa (chaTipha', "taken," "captive" (?)): The ancestral head of a family of Nethinim that returned from Babylon (Ezra 2:54; Nehemiah 7:56 = "Atipha," 1 Esdras 5:32).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.