Uriel

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Uriel: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

son of Tahath; chief of the Kohath clan of Levi under David
grandfather of King Abijah / Abijam of Judah

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the Lord is my light or fire ( --> same as Uriah, Urijah)

Hebrew

Strongs #0222: layrwa 'Uwriy'el

Uriel = "God (El) is my light"

1) chief of the Levitical line of Kohath in David's time
2) maternal grandfather of Abijah

222 'Uwriy'el oo-ree-ale'

from 217 and 410; flame of God; Uriel, the name of two
Israelites:-Uriel.
see HEBREW for 0217
see HEBREW for 0410

Uriel [EBD]

God is my light. (1.) A Levite of the family of Kohath (1 Chr. 6:24).

(2.) The chief of the Kohathites at the time when the ark was brought up to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:5, 11).

(3.) The father of Michaiah, one of Rehoboam's wives, and mother of Abijah (2 Chr. 13:2).

Uriel [NAVE]

URIEL
1. A Levite. Son of Tahath, 1 Chr. 6:24.
2. A Levite. Assisted in moving the ark, 1 Chr. 15:5, 11, 12.
3. Grandfather of King Abijah, 2 Chr. 13:2.

URIEL [SMITH]

(the fire of God), an angel named only in 2 Esdr. 4:1,36; 5:20; 10:28.

URIEL [SMITH]

1. A Kohathite Levite, son of Tahath. (1 Chronicles 6:24)
2. Chief of the Kohathites in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 15:5,11) (B.C. 1043.)
3. Uriel of Gibeah was the father of Maachah or Michaiah the favorite wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah. (2 Chronicles 13:2) (B.C. before 973.) In (2 Chronicles 11:20) she is called "Maachah the daughter of Absalom." Probably her mother, Tamer, was the daughter of Absalom.

URIEL (1) [ISBE]

URIEL (1) - u'-ri-el ('uri'-el, "flame of El (God)," or "El is my light"):

(1) A Kohathite, said in 1 Ch 15:5 to be the chief of the sons of Kohath (1 Ch 6:24 (Hebrew verse 9); 15:5,11). He corresponds to Zephaniah in the pedigree of Heman in 1 Ch 6:33-38 (Hebrew 18-23). See Curtis, Chronicles, 130 f.

(2) A man of Gibeah, and father of Micaiah the mother of King Abijah of Judah (2 Ch 13:2).

(3) The archangel (En 20:2, etc.). See next article.

URIEL (2) [ISBE]

URIEL (2) - (Ouriel, "fire or flame of God"' or "my light is God"): Called only in 2 Esdras an "angel," except 2 Esdras 4:36 where the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version rightly give "Jeremiel the archangel" for the King James Version "Uriel the archangel," but elsewhere known as one of the four chief archangels. He was the angel who instructed Ezra (2 Esdras 4:1; 5:20; 10:28). In Enoch 20:2 Uriel is the angel who is "over the world and Tartarus" (ho epi tou kosmou kai tou tartarou), and as such is the conductor to Enoch in the world below, the secrets of which he explains. Compare also (Greek) 19:1; 21:5. In the (Latin) "Life of Adam and Eve," 48 (ed. W. Meyer in Abhand. d. Bayer. Akad. der Wiss., XIV, 1878, 250), Uriel (Oriel) accompanied Michael when at God's bidding he wrapped the bodies of Adam and Abel in three linen sheets and buried them in Paradise. In the lost "Prayer of Joseph" Uriel is the angel who wrestles and converses with Jacob and knows the secrets of heaven (as in Enoch those of Tartarus), but stands only 8th in rank, whereas in (Greek) Enoch 20:2 ff he is the 1st of the six (or seven) archangels. In Sib Or 2:229 he is entrusted with the judgment of the Titans. Compare Milton, Paradise Lost, III, 690, "regent of the sun, and held the sharpest sighted Spirit of all in heaven."

(2) "Urier" the King James Version = the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version margin "Jeremiel."

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