Word Study · Strong's H1283 · Hebrew
בְּרִיעָה
Beriah
ber-ee'-aw
Strong's 1890 spelling: Bᵉrîyʻâh
“Beriah, the name of four Israelites”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Beriah, the name of four Israelites
Rendered in the KJV as
Beriah.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 8inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 8
- בְרִיעָ֔ה3
- וּבְרִיעָ֖ה2
- בְּרִיעָ֔ה1
- בְרִיעָֽה׃1
- וּבְרִיעָ֑ה1
- וּבְרִיעָה֙1
- וּבְרִעָ֣ה1
- לִבְרִיעָ֕ה1
How it is rendered · 3
- and Beriah5
- Beriah5
- of Beriah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5
- proper noun (a name)5
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HC/Npm · 5
- HNpm · 5
- HR/Npm · 1
All 11, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis2 occurrences
- Genesis 46:17וּבְרִיעָ֖הuveriahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.here: and Beriah
- Genesis 46:17בְרִיעָ֔הveriahproper noun (a name)The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.here: Beriah
Numbers2 occurrences
- Numbers 26:44לִבְרִיעָ֕הlivriahpreposition + proper noun (a name)These were the descendants of Asher by their clans: The Imnite clan from Imnah, the Ishvite clan from Ishvi, and the Beriite clan from Beriah.here: of Beriah
- Numbers 26:45בְרִיעָ֔הveriahproper noun (a name)And these were the descendants of Beriah: the Heberite clan from Heber and the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.here: Beriah
1 Chronicles7 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 7:23בְּרִיעָ֔הberiahproper noun (a name)And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house.here: Beriah
- 1 Chronicles 7:30וּבְרִיעָ֖הuveriahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.here: and Beriah
- 1 Chronicles 7:31בְרִיעָ֔הveriahproper noun (a name)The sons of Beriah: Heber, as well as Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.here: Beriah
- 1 Chronicles 8:13וּבְרִעָ֣הuveriahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages), and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).here: and Beriah
- 1 Chronicles 8:16בְרִיעָֽה׃veriahproper noun (a name)Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were the sons of Beriah.here: Beriah
- 1 Chronicles 23:10וּבְרִיעָ֑הuveriahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These were the sons of Shimei—four in all.here: and Beriah
- 1 Chronicles 23:11וּבְרִיעָה֙uveriahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Jahath was the first and Zizah was the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so they were counted as one family and received a single assignment.here: and Beriah