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# אֲמַרְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H568

**Amariah** — used 13 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

Amariah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/568/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/568/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath promised, cf. Palm. אמרשמשא, Sab. יתעאמר) long form only 1 Ch 24:23; 2 Ch 19:11; 31:15. a Levite 1 Ch 23:19; 24:23 (in Dvd’s time), cf. 1 Ch 5:33,(×2); 6:37; Ezr 7:3; vid. also 1 Ch 5:37,(×2); also Ezr 10:42. chief priest under Jehosh. 2 Ch 19:11. Levite under Hezekiah 2 Ch 31:15. son of Hezekiah & great-grandfather of Zephaniah Zp 1:1. a priest Ne 10:4; 12:2, 13. a man of Judah Ne 11:4.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Amariah (10); of Amariah (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.42/#tree)

שַׁלּ֥וּם אֲמַרְיָ֖ה יוֹסֵֽף׃ס

*Word for word:* Shallum Amariah Joseph

*JPS 1917:* Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

[Nehemiah 10:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.4/#tree)

פַּשְׁח֥וּר אֲמַרְיָ֖ה מַלְכִּיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Pashhur Amariah Malkijah

*JPS 1917:* Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/568.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/568/): 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).