Lexical Summary Amaryahu or Amaryah: "Yah has promised", the name of several Israelites Original Word: אֲמַרְיָהTransliteration: Amaryahu or Amaryah Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar-yaw') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: "Yah has promised", the name of several Israelites Meaning: Amariah -- "Yah has promised", the name of several Israelites Strong's Concordance Amariah Or prolonged tamaryahuw {am-ar-yaw'-hoo}; from 'amar and Yahh; Jah has said (i.e. Promised); Amarjah, the name of nine Israelites -- Amariah. see HEBREW 'amar see HEBREW Yahh Brown-Driver-Briggs H568. Amaryahu or Amaryah אֲמַרְיָה אֲמַרְי֫הוּ proper name, masculine (Yah(u) hath promised, compare Palmyrene אֶמרשמשא Sabean יתעאמר) long form only 1 Chronicles 24:23; 2 Chronicles 19:11; 31:15. 1 a Levite 1 Chronicles 23:19; 24:23 (in David's time), compare 1 Chronicles 5:33 (twice in verse); 6:37; Ezra 7:3; see also 2 1 Chronicles 5:37 (twice in verse); also 3 Ezra 10:42. 4 chief priest under Jehosh. 2 Chronicles 19:11. 5 Levite under Hezekiah2 Chronicles 31:15. 6 son of Hezekiah & great-grandfather of Zephaniah Zephaniah 1:1. 7 a priest Nehemiah 10:4; 12:2, 13. 8 a man of Judah Nehemiah 11:4. |