# H568 אֲמַרְיָה

אֲמַרְיָה (ʼĂmaryâh), Strong’s H568: Amarjah, the name of nine Israelites KJV: Amariah.. Occurs 16 times.

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*ʼĂmaryâh* — Amarjah, the name of nine Israelites

KJV: Amariah.

Built from [אָמַר ʼâmar](https://besorah.bible/word/H559) (to say) + [יָהּ Yâhh](https://besorah.bible/word/H3050) (Jah, the sacred name) — means “Jah has said (i.e. promised)”

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּ, אֲמַרְיָה n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath promised)
- 1 a Levite
- 2 also
- 3 .
- 4 chief priest under Jehosh.
- 5 Levite under Hezekiah
- 6 son of Hezekiah & great-grandfather of Zephaniah
- 7 a priest
- 8 a man of Judah

## Where it occurs
- [Zephaniah 1:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/1?v=1) — The LORD’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of…
- [Ezra 7:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/7?v=3) — the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
- [Ezra 10:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/10?v=42) — Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
- [Nehemiah 10:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/10?v=4) — Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
- [Nehemiah 11:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/11?v=4) — Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the…
- [Nehemiah 12:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/12?v=2) — Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
- [Nehemiah 12:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/12?v=13) — of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
- [1 Chronicles 5:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/5?v=33) — Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
- [1 Chronicles 5:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/5?v=37) — Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
- [1 Chronicles 6:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/6?v=37) — Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,