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Neriah

Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy

Neriah was the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe.

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Neriah was the father of Baruch, who served as the scribe and assistant to the prophet Jeremiah (Jer.32.12). Baruch wrote down the prophecies that Jeremiah dictated to him (Jer.36.4). When King Jehoiakim burned the scroll containing these prophecies, Neriah's son Baruch rewrote them as Jeremiah dictated again (Jer.36.32). Neriah's grandson Seraiah also served Jeremiah (Jer.51.59). The name Neriah means "lamp of Yahweh" in Hebrew.

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Mahseiah

Bible dictionary

Neriah Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(lamp of Jehovah), the son of Maaseiah and father of Baruch and Seraiah.

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Neriah Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

light; lamp of the Lord

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Neriah Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

NERI'AH (lamp of Jehovah), the father of Baruch. Jer 32:12, etc.

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Neriah Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

NERI'AH (lamp of Jehovah), the father of Baruch. Jer 32:12, etc.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Neriah appears

10 verses in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H5374

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Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.