עֲזַרְיָה

Detailed Definition

• 1also, 'abednego' (h5664 or h5665)
• 2son of king amaziah of judah and king of judah himself for 52 years; also 'uzziah'
• 3the godly friend of daniel who nebuchadnezzar renamed abednego; one of the three friends who with daniel refused to make themselves unclean by eating food from the king's table which went against the dietary laws which god had given the jews; also one of the three who were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to a graven image of nebuchadnezzar and who were saved by the angel of the lord
• 4son of nathan and an officer of solomon; perhaps david's grandson and solomon's nephew
• 5a prophet in the days of king asa of judah
• 6son of king jehoshaphat of judah and brother to 5
• 7another son of king jehoshaphat of judah and brother to 4
• 8a priest, son of ahimaaz, grandson of zadok and high priest in the reign of king solomon
• 9the high priest in the reign of king uzziah of judah
• 10a priest who sealed the covenant with nehemiah; probably same as 18
• 11a kohathite levite, father of joel in the reign of king hezekiah of judah
• 12a merarite levite, son of jehalelel in the reign of king hezekiah of judah
• 13a kohathite levite, son of zephaniah and ancestor of samuel the prophet
• 14a levite who helped ezra in instructing the people in the law
• 15son of jeroham and one of the temple captains of judah in the time of queen athaliah; probably the same as 21
• 16son of maaseiah who repaired part of the wall of jerusalem in the time of nehemiah
• 17one of the leaders who returned from babylon with zerubbabel
• 18a man who assisted in the dedication of the wall of jerusalem in the time of nehemiah; probably the same as 10
• 19son of johanan, one of the captains of ephraim in the reign of king ahaz of judah
• 20a judaite, son of ethan of the sons of zerah
• 21a judaite, son of jehu of the family of the jerahmeelites and descended from jarha the egyptian slave of sheshan; probably one of the captains of the time of queen athaliah and the same as 15
• 22a priest, son of hilkiah
• 23a priest, son of johanan
• 24son of king jehoram of judah; probably clerical error for 'ahaziah'
• 25son of meraioth
• 26son of hoshaiah and one of the proud men who confronted jeremiah