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Lexicon :: Strong's H223 - 'ûrîyâ

Aa
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 Box2Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6 - And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9 - But Uriah took his rest 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 Box2Sa 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone 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 Box2Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:12 - And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14 - Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16 - So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 - And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:15 - Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:39

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:16 - So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:41

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:4 - By their side Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was making good the walls. Then Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel; and by him, Zadok, the son of Baana.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21 - After him Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was working on another part, from the door of the house of Eliashib as far as the end of his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:4 - And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2 - And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21 - And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.
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