Strong's Hebrew: 568. אֲמַרְיָה (Amaryahu or Amaryah) -- "Yah has promised," the name of several Israelites

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Amaryahu or Amaryah: "Yah has promised," the name of several Israelites

Original Word: אֲמַרְיָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Amaryahu or Amaryah
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar-yaw')
Short Definition: Amariah

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from amar and Yah
Definition
"Yah has promised," the name of several Isr.
NASB Translation
Amariah (16).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲמַרְי֫הוּ אֲמַרְיָה proper name, masculine (Yah(u) hath promised, compare Palmyrene אֶמרשמשא Sabean יתעאמר) long form only 1 Chronicles 24:23; 2Chronicles 19:11; 31:15.

1 a Levite 1 Chronicles 23:19; 1 Chronicles 24:23 (in David's time), compare 1 Chronicles 5:33 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 6:37; Ezra 7:3; see also

2 1 Chronicles 5:37 (twice in verse); also

3 Ezra 10:42.

4 chief priest under Jehosh. 2 Chronicles 19:11.

5 Levite under Hezekiah2Chronicles 31:15.

6 son of Hezekiah & great-grandfather of Zephaniah Zephaniah 1:1.

7 a priest Nehemiah 10:4; Nehemiah 12:2,13.

8 a man of Judah Nehemiah 11:4.

Strong's

Amariah

Or prolonged tamaryahuw {am-ar-yaw'-hoo}; from 'amar and Yahh; Jah has said (i.e. Promised); Amarjah, the name of nine Israelites -- Amariah.

see HEBREW 'amar

see HEBREW Yahh