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Lexicon :: Strong's H223 - 'ûrîyâ

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אוּרִיָּה
Transliteration
'ûrîyâ
Pronunciation
oo-ree-yaw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אוּרִיָּה ʼÛwrîyâh, oo-ree-yaw'; or (prolonged) אוּרִיָּהוּ ʼÛwrîyâhûw ; from H217 and H3050; flame of Jah; Urijah, the name of one Hittite and five Israelites:—Uriah, Urijah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H223 in the following manner: Uriah (28x), Urijah (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H223 in the following manner: Uriah (28x), Urijah (11x).

  1. Uriah or Urijah = "Jehovah (Yahweh) is my light (flame)"

    1. Hittite husband of Bathsheba

    2. a priest who built king Ahaz' heathen altar

    3. a priest who rebuilt Jerusalem's wall

    4. a prophet slain by Jehoiakim

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אוּרִיָּה ʼÛwrîyâh, oo-ree-yaw'; or (prolonged) אוּרִיָּהוּ ʼÛwrîyâhûw ; from H217 and H3050; flame of Jah; Urijah, the name of one Hittite and five Israelites:—Uriah, Urijah.
STRONGS H223: Abbreviations
אוּרִיָּה proper name, masculine (flame of Yah or my light is Yah see H3050 יָהּ).
1. Hittite husband of Bathsheba 2 Samuel 11:3f; 2 Samuel 23:39.
2. priest in reign of Ahaz Isaiah 8:2; 2 Kings 16:10f.
3. priest in time of Nehemiah Ezra 8:33; Nehemiah 3:4, 21; Nehemiah 8:4.

† אוּרִיָּ֫הוּ proper name, masculine (flame of Yahweh or my light is Yahweh see H3068 יהוה) a prophet slain by Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26:20.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

11:3; 23:39

2 Kings

16:10

Ezra

8:33

Nehemiah

3:4; 3:21; 8:4

Isaiah

8:2

Jeremiah

26:20

H223

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H223 matches the Hebrew אוּרִיָּה ('ûrîyâ),
which occurs 39 times in 33 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6 - So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9 - But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:12 - Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14 - In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16 - And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 - When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:15 - Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:39 - Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:16 - Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:41 - Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:4 - And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21 - After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:4 - And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2 - And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21 - And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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