Urijah

Also called Uriah

Mentioned 456–444 BC traditional (Jones)

The father of Meremoth, mentioned in Ezra 8:33.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Koz
Child: Meremoth
Tagged in: 3 verses

Mentioned in the era of Exile and return, 586–5 BC.
Named in the same verses as Meremoth, Koz, Baana, Berechiah, Binnui, Eleazar, Eliashib, and Jeshua.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 481–419 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

3 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Ezra1
Nehemiah2

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Urijah 0Uriah 40
KJV	Urijah 11Uriah 28
ASV	Urijah 5Uriah 35

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 3 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Ezra1 verse

8:33
On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.

Nehemiah2 verses

3:4
Next to them, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, made repairs. Next to him, Meshullam son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs; and next to him, Zadok son of Baana made repairs as well.
3:21
Next to him, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another section, from the doorway of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.