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# אוּרִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H223

**Uriah** — used 36 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Uriah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/223/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוּרִיָּה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/223/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (flame of Yah or my light is Yah v. יָהּ). Hittite husband of Bathsheba 2 S 11:3f; 23:39. priest in reign of Ahaz Is 8:2 2 K 16:10f. priest in time of Nehemiah Ezr 8:33 Ne 3:4, 21; 8:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Uriah (27); of Uriah (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.41/#tree)

אֽוּרִיָּה֙ הַחִתִּ֔י זָבָ֖ד בֶּן־אַחְלָֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Uriah the Hittite Zabad the.son of.Ahlai

*JPS 1917:* Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai;

[2 Samuel 23:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.39/#tree)

אֽוּרִיָּה֙ הַֽחִתִּ֔י כֹּ֖ל שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* Uriah the Hittite all \[were\].thirty and seven

*JPS 1917:* Uriah the Hittite. Thirty and seven in all.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/223/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).