אוּרִיָּהʼÛwrîyâh

אוּרִיָּה: proper name, masculine: flame of Yah or my light is Yah

Pronunciation: oo-ree-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H223

Meanings

1. Hittite husband of Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:3; 2 Samuel 23:39)

2. priest in reign of Ahaz (Isaiah 8:2; 2 Kings 16:10)

3. priest in time of Nehemiah (Ezra 8:33; Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:21)

אוּרִיָּ֫הוּ: proper name, masculine: a prophet slain by Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 26:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 39 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 11:3 He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
  • 2 Samuel 11:6 Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
  • 2 Samuel 11:7 When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the army were getting along and how the war was progressing.
  • 2 Samuel 11:8 Then he told Uriah, “Go on home and relax.” David even sent a gift to Uriah after he had left the palace.
  • 2 Samuel 11:9 But Uriah didn’t go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.
  • 2 Samuel 11:10 When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he summoned him and asked, “What’s the matter? Why didn’t you go home last night after being away for so long?”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).