uriya · Uriah

What it means

uriya (אוּרִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Uriah”.

The name of several men; the best known is the Hittite, one of David's mighty men and husband of Bathsheba, whom David had killed in battle (2 Samuel 11). It means "my light is YHWH."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×24
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3

• 2 Samuel 11:3

  David sent and inquired about the woman, and someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

• 2 Samuel 11:6

  David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.

• 2 Samuel 11:7

  When Uriah came to him, David asked about the welfare of Joab and the welfare of the people and the welfare of the war.

• 2 Samuel 11:8

  David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah went out from the house of the king, and a gift from the king went out after him.

• 2 Samuel 11:9

  But Uriah lay down at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and he did not go down to his house.

• 2 Samuel 11:10

  They reported it to David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house.” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”

• 2 Samuel 11:11

  Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are living in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping on the open field; and shall I go into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

• 2 Samuel 11:12

  David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you away.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

• 2 Samuel 11:14

  And it happened in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

• 2 Samuel 11:15

  He wrote in the letter, saying, “Put Uriah in front of the fiercest battle, and withdraw from behind him, so that he is struck and dies.”

• 2 Samuel 11:16

  And it happened, as Joab was watching the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew that there were valiant men.

• 2 Samuel 11:17

  The men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the people fell, of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite also died.

• 2 Samuel 11:21

  Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go near to the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

• 2 Samuel 11:24

  Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”

• 2 Samuel 11:26

  When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her spouse.

• 2 Samuel 12:9

  Why have you despised the word of YHWH, doing evil in my eyes? Uriah the Hittite you struck with the sword, and his wife you took for yourself as wife, and him you killed with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 12:10

  And now the sword shall not depart from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

• 2 Samuel 12:15

  Then Nathan went to his house. And YHWH struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and he became very ill.

• 2 Samuel 23:39

  Uriah the Hittite. In all, thirty-seven.

• 1 Kings 15:5

  because David had done what was right in the eyes of YHWH, and had not turned aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria at Damascus, and he saw the altar that was in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, for all its workmanship.

• 2 Kings 16:11

  Uriah the priest built the altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest did, until King Ahaz came from Damascus.

• 2 Kings 16:15

  King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar offer up in smoke the burnt offering of the morning and the grain offering of the evening, and the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their libations; and all the blood of burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice you shall splash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

• 2 Kings 16:16

  Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

• 1 Chronicles 11:41

  Uriah the Hittite; Zabad son of Ahlai;

• Ezra 8:33

  And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed in the house of our Elohim by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites:

• Nehemiah 3:4

  And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired; and next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel, repaired; and next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.

• Nehemiah 3:21

  After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired a second section, from the entrance of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.

• Nehemiah 8:4

  And Ezra the scribe stood on a tower of wood that they had made for this; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, at his right; and at his left Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, Meshullam.

• Isaiah 8:2

  And I will call for myself faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.

• Jeremiah 26:20

  And there was also a man prophesying in the name of YHWH, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 26:21

  And King Jehoiakim heard —and all his mighty men and all the princes— his words, and the king sought to put him to death; and Uriah heard of it, and he was afraid and fled and went to Egypt.

• Jeremiah 26:23

  And they brought Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, and he struck him down with the sword and threw his corpse into the graves of the children of the people.

And 6 more times.