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1 Chronicles 8:13
“Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בְּרִיעָהBᵉrîyʻâh · ber-ee'-aw
H1283 · Hebrew
H1283 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Beriah, the name of four Israelites
- Derivation
- apparently from the feminine of H7451 (רַע) with a prepositional prefix; in trouble;
- KJV renderings
- Beriah.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בְרִעָ֣ה — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 11 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 46:17Genesis 46:17Numbers 26:44Numbers 26:451 Chronicles 7:23
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בְּרִיעָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.