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title: מְרָיָה — Meraiah. Compare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְרָיָה (4811), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Meraiah. Compare. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְרָיָה

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«מְרָיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Meraiah. Compare** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4811 · **BDB:** מְרָיָה

### Glosses

Meraiah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Meraiah. Compare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4811/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4811/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a priest in days of h.p. Joiakim Ne 12:12; 𝔊 Μαρεα, Μαρ(α)ια, 𝔊L Αμαριας.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְרָיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4811/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 12:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.12/)

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וּבִימֵי֙ יֽוֹיָקִ֔ים הָי֥וּ כֹהֲנִ֖ים רָאשֵׁ֣י הָאָב֑וֹת לִשְׂרָיָ֣ה מְרָיָ֔ה לְיִרְמְיָ֖ה חֲנַנְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in the.days of.Joiakim they.were priests the.heads of the.fathers of Seraiah Meraiah of Jeremiah Hananiah

*JPS 1917:* And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

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