Uriah or Urijah = "Jehovah (Yahweh) is my light (flame)"

1. Hittite husband of Bathsheba

2. a priest who built king Ahaz' heathen altar

3. a priest who rebuilt Jerusalem's wall

4. a prophet slain by Jehoiakim

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Baana or Baanah = "in the affliction"

1. the son of Ahilud, Solomon's commissariat officer in Jezreel and the north of the Jordan valley

2. another of Solomon's officers

3. father of Zadok who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah

Berachiah or Berechiah = "Jehovah blesses"

1. a son of Zerubbabel

2. a Levite who returned from the exile

3. father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah's chiefs who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem

4. father of Zechariah

5. a Gershonite Levite, the father of Asaph, the singer, doorkeeper of the ark

6. an Ephraimite chief in the time of Ahaz

to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore

1. (Qal)

   1. to be strong, grow strong

      1. to prevail, prevail upon

      2. to be firm, be caught fast, be secure

      3. to press, be urgent

      4. to grow stout, grow rigid, grow hard (bad sense)

      5. to be severe, be grievous

   2. to strengthen

2. (Piel)

   1. to make strong

   2. to restore to strength, give strength

   3. to strengthen, sustain, encourage

   4. to make strong, make bold, encourage

   5. to make firm

   6. to make rigid, make hard

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to make strong, strengthen

   2. to make firm

   3. to display strength

   4. to make severe

   5. to support

   6. to repair

   7. to prevail, prevail upon

   8. to have or take or keep hold of, retain, hold up, sustain, support

   9. to hold, contain

4. (Hithpael)

   1. to strengthen oneself

   2. to put forth strength, use one's strength

   3. to withstand

   4. to hold strongly with

hand

1. hand (of man)

2. strength, power (fig.)

3. side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.)

4. (various special, technical senses)

   1. sign, monument

   2. part, fractional part, share

   3. time, repetition

   4. axle-trees, axle

   5. stays, support (for laver)

   6. tenons (in tabernacle)

   7. a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure)

   8. wrists

Meremoth = "elevations"

1. a priest, son of Uriah of the family of Koz active in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and in the 7th course of temple service in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah

2. a priest in the time of Zerubbabel

3. a returning exile of the family of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Meshezabeel = "God delivers"

1. ancestor of Meshullam who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem

   1. perhaps the same as 2 and 3

2. a head of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

   1. perhaps the same as 1 and 3

3. father of Pethahiah and descendant of Zerah the son of Judah

   1. perhaps the same as 1 and 2

Meshullam = "friend"

1. grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe

2. son of Zerubbabel

3. a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal

4. a Benjamite, father of Sallu

5. a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity

6. a Benjamite

   1. perhaps the same as 3 or 4

7. a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah

8. son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem

9. son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem

10. a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

11. father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah

    1. perhaps the same as 'Shallum'

12. a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai

13. a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

14. a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua

15. a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem

16. a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah

17. a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives

18. ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah

19. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away

20. one of the men who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

    1. maybe the same as 17

upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against

1. upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards

2. above, beyond, over (of excess)

3. above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)

4. upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)

5. over (of suspension or extension)

6. by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)

7. down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to,, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)

8. to (as a dative)

   conjunction

because that, because, notwithstanding, although

Zadok = "righteous"

1. the high priest, son of Ahitub of the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and 11th in descent from Aaron; joined David after Saul's death and supported him against Absalom and Adonijah; anointed Solomon as king

2. a priest, son of Meraioth, father of Meshullam of the house of Ahitub; apparently a nephew of 1

3. father of Jerusha, the wife of king Uzziah and mother of king Jotham of Judah

4. son of Baana and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

5. son of Immer and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

6. a leader of the people in the time of Nehemiah

7. a scribe appointed by Nehemiah as one of the treasurers over the storehouse

8. a valiant warrior of the tribe of Benjamin who joined David at Hebron. Same as 1?

Koz = "thorn"

1. a descendant of Judah

2. a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel