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# מְרָיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4811

**Meraiah. Compare** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Meraiah. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4811/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרָיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4811/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a priest in days of h.p. Joiakim Ne 12:12; 𝔊 Μαρεα, Μαρ(α)ια, 𝔊L Αμαριας.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Meraiah (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.12/#tree)

וּבִימֵי֙ יֽוֹיָקִ֔ים הָי֥וּ כֹהֲנִ֖ים רָאשֵׁ֣י הָאָב֑וֹת לִשְׂרָיָ֣ה מְרָיָ֔ה לְיִרְמְיָ֖ה חֲנַנְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in the.days of.Joiakim they.were priests the.heads of the.fathers of Seraiah Meraiah of Jeremiah Hananiah

*JPS 1917:* And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4811/): 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).