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# מְרָיוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4812

**Meraioth** — used 7 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

Meraioth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4812/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרָיוֹת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4812/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (on form cf. LagBN 51);— descendant of Aaron: grandfather of Ahitub and great-grandfather of Zadok 1 Ch 5:32, 33; 6:37 Ezr 7:3; 𝔊 Μαρειηλ, Μαρερωθ, Μαραιωθ, etc. as son of Ahitub and father of Zadok 1 Ch 9:11 Ne 11:11; 𝔊 Μαρμωθ Μαρ(α)ιωθ. name of a priestly house Ne 12:15 (prob. error for מְרֵמוֹת, q.v., 12:3), 𝔊L Μαριμωθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Meraioth (4); of Meraioth (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.3/#tree)

בֶּן־אֲמַרְיָ֥ה בֶן־עֲזַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן־מְרָיֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Amariah the.son of.Azariah the.son of.Meraioth

*JPS 1917:* the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

[Nehemiah 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.15/#tree)

לְחָרִ֣ם עַדְנָ֔א לִמְרָי֖וֹת חֶלְקָֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Harim Adna of Meraioth Helkai

*JPS 1917:* of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4812.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4812/): 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).