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Kelaiah; Kelita

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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(dwarf). Assistant of Ezra (Neh. 8:77Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. (Nehemiah 8:7)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Levite who had married a strange wife (Ezra 10:2323Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. (Ezra 10:23)). He assisted Ezra in explaining the law and sealed the covenant (Neh. 8:77Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. (Nehemiah 8:7); Neh. 10:1010And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, (Nehemiah 10:10)).

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

lightly esteemed of Jah: voice of Jah