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ʾămaryāhū אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּ ‘Amariah’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from ʾāmar אָמַר ‘to say’ and yāh יָהּ ‘YH--’
Roots: אמר יה

ʾămaryāhū pr n m pers
Amariah = "Jehovah speaks" or "Yah(u) has promised"
1) Zadok's grandfather
2) a head priest's son in Solomon's time
3) a chief priest under Jehoshaphat
4) Hezekiah's son, great-grandfather of Zephaniah
5) a Levite in Ezra's time
6) a Levite under Hezekiah
7) a priest in Nehemiah's time

Mentioned in Zephaniah 1:1 Ezra 7:3, 10:42 Nehemiah 10:4, 11:4, 12:2, 12:13 1 Chronicles 5:33, 5:37, 6:37, 23:19, 24:23 2 Chronicles 31:15, 19:11

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