יִרְאִיָּיהYirʼîyâyh

יִרְאִיָּיה֯: proper name, masculine: see below ראה

Pronunciation: yir-ee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3376

Meanings

יִרְאִיָּיה: proper name, masculine: officer, Jeremiah's time (Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 37:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Jeremiah 37:13 But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a sentry arrested him and said, “You are defecting to the Babylonians!” The sentry making the arrest was Irijah son of Shelemiah, grandson of Hananiah.
  • Jeremiah 37:14 “That’s not true!” Jeremiah protested. “I had no intention of doing any such thing.” But Irijah wouldn’t listen, and he took Jeremiah before the officials.

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).