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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 - So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not 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 - Then David sent to Joab, saying, “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 had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift of food from the king followed him.

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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 - So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did 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 - And Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and 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, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” 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 it happened that 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 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat 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 - So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - ‘Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?[fn] Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go 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 - “The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and 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 mourned for her husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.

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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 departed to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became ill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:39 - and 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 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 king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz came back 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, “On the great new altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. And 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 - Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that 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 - Now on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the articles were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; 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 Urijah, the son of Koz,[fn] made repairs. Next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs. Next to them Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21 - After him Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz,[fn] 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 - So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose; and beside him, at his right hand, stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah; and at his left hand Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2 - “And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words 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 him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - And they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
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