מְרָיוֹת
Meraioth
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4812 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 6:6 מְרָיֽוֹת n Proper and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth,
- 1 Chronicles 6:7 מְרָיוֹת֙ n Proper Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
- 1 Chronicles 6:52 מְרָי֥וֹת n Proper Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
- 1 Chronicles 9:11 מְרָיוֹת֙ n Proper and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew name מריות centers on the idea of “Meraioth.” 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 4 of 7 verses. Spanning 7 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at 1 Chronicles 6:6, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4812 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 57%
- Nehemiah 2 verses 29%
- Ezra 1 verse 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Meraioth 7×
- American Standard Version: Meraioth 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Meraioth 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Meraioth 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4812 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4812 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4812 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4812 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. descendant of Aaron:
- a. grandfather of Ahitub and great-grandfather of Zadok 1 Ch 5:32, 33; 6:37 Ezr 7:3; 𝔊 Μαρειηλ, Μαρερωθ, Μαραιωθ, etc. e.g. 1 Chronicles 5:32
- b. as son of Ahitub and father of Zadok 1 Ch 9:11 Ne 11:11; 𝔊 Μαρμωθ Μαρ(α)ιωθ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:11
- 2. name of a priestly house Ne 12:15 (prob. error for מְרֵמוֹת, q.v., 12:3), 𝔊L Μαριμωθ. e.g. Nehemiah 12:15
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (on form cf. LagBN 51);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מריה (Mᵉrâyâh) (H4811) — Meraiah.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H4812 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְרָיוֹת֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:7 | 3 |
| מְרָיֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Ezra 7:3 | 2 |
| לִ/מְרָי֖וֹת | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:15 | 1 |
| מְרָי֥וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:52 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Meraioth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Rebellions. (1.) Father of Amariah, a high priest of the line of Eleazar (1 Chr. 6:6, 7, 52).
(2.) Neh. 12:15, a priest who went to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel. He is called Meremoth in Neh. 12:3.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(rebellious).
+ A descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron and head of a priestly house. (1 Chronicles 6:61; 7:62) It is apparently another Meraioth who comes in between Zadok and Ahitub in the genealogy of Azariah. (1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 11:11) + The head of one of the houses of priests, which in the time of Joiakim the son of Jeshua was represented by helkai. (Nehemiah 12:15)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
bitterness; rebellious; changing
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
