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# uriah

«uriah» in Mova's school dictionary: **Uriah the Hittite was a loyal soldier in King David's…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Uriah)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible) Uriah the Hittite was a loyal soldier in King David's army; David took Uriah's wife Bathsheba and had Uriah sent to the front of the battle, where he was killed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#m1)

2) A man's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#m2)

3) Uriah Heep is a sly, falsely humble villain in Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In religion and ethics lessons the story of David and Uriah shows how even a great king did a terrible wrong, and how the prophet Nathan made David face his sin; David then repented. Phrases: «Uriah the Hittite», «a Uriah Heep» (a creepy, fake-humble person).

### examples

- Uriah was a brave soldier in David's army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#x1)
- King David sent Uriah to the front of the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#x2)
- The prophet Nathan told David a story to show he had wronged Uriah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#x3)
- David was sorry for what he had done to Uriah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#x4)
- Uriah Heep keeps saying he is «very 'umble». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#x5)
- Uriah would not go home while his fellow soldiers were in danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/#x6)

### note

A name, always with capital U. Pronounced yoo-RYE-uh. «Uriah Heep» is used to describe a person who pretends to be humble but is scheming.

### In the corpora

- [David took Bathsheba, another man's wife, and arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/7/)
- [And one said: 'Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.272/)
- [And David sent to Joab, saying: 'Send me Uriah the Hittite.' And Joab sent Uriah to David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.275/)
- [And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.295/)
- [And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore unto David, and it was very sick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.316/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «uriah» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uriah/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.