neriya · Neriah

What it means

neriya (נֵרִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Neriah”.

A name meaning "YHWH is a lamp"; the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah.

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

• Jeremiah 32:12

  and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel my uncle, and before the eyes of the witnesses who had written in the deed of purchase, before the eyes of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 32:16

  And I prayed to YHWH, after I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, saying,

• Jeremiah 36:4

  And Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of YHWH that he had spoken to him on a scroll of a book.

• Jeremiah 36:8

  And Baruch son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of YHWH in the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 36:14

  Then all the princes sent to Baruch Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, saying, “The scroll from which you read in the ears of the people, take it in your hand and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.

• Jeremiah 36:32

  And Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, the scribe; and he wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and besides, there were added to them many words like them.

• Jeremiah 43:3

  but Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us, in order to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death or to carry us into exile to Babylon.”

• Jeremiah 43:6

  the men and the women and the little ones and the daughters of the king, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.

• Jeremiah 45:1

  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

• Jeremiah 51:59

  The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign; and Seraiah was chief of the resting place.