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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 - David sent word and inquired about the woman. Someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6 -

Then David sent word to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So 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 him [fn]how Joab was, how the people were doing, and how the war was progressing.

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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 (spend time at home).” Uriah left the king’s palace, and a [fn]gift from the king was sent out after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9 - But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s palace 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 [just] come from a [long] journey? Why did you not go 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 are staying in huts (temporary shelters), and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, 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, “Stay here today as well, and tomorrow I will let you leave.” 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 [fn]with Uriah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - He wrote in the letter, “Put Uriah in the front line of the heaviest fighting and leave him, so that he may be struck down and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16 - So it happened that as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew the [enemy’s] valiant men were positioned.

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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 against Joab, and some of the people among the servants of David 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 (Gideon)? Was it not a woman who threw 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 also dead.’”

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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 also dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 -

When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for 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 by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You 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 [back] to his home.

And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s widow bore to David, and he was very 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 had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of [the betrayal of] Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 -

Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria, and saw the pagan altar which was at Damascus. Then King Ahaz sent a model of the altar to Urijah the priest along with a [detailed] pattern for all its construction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - So Urijah the priest built an altar; in accordance with everything that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, that is how Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz returned from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon the great [new] 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 offerings; and sprinkle on the new altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the [old] bronze altar shall be kept for me to use to [fn]examine the sacrifices.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:16 - Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:41 - Uriah the Hittite [Bathsheba’s husband], Zabad the son of Ahlai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed out in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, 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 - Next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, made repairs. Next to him Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs. And next to him Zadok the son of Baana also made repairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21 - After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another [eastern] section, from the door of Eliashib’s house as far as the end of his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2 - “And I will get faithful witnesses to attest [to this prophecy] for me, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 -

And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land in words similar to all those of Jeremiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21 - And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put Uriah 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 brought Uriah [God’s spokesman] from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with a sword and threw his dead body among the graves of the common people.
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