STRONGS NUMBER H568


Word Summary
Amaryahu or Amaryah: "Yah has promised", the name of several Israelites
Original Word: אֲמַרְיָה
Transliteration: Amaryahu or Amaryah
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has promised", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Amariah -- "Yah has promised", the name of several Israelites
Strong's Concordance
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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H568. Amaryahu

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

1 a Levite 1 Chronicles 23:19; 24:23 (in David's time), compare 1 Chronicles 5:33 (twice in verse); 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 Hezekiah2 Chronicles 31:15.

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

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

8 a man of Judah Nehemiah 11:4.