Uriah
Uriah or Urijah ( Hebrew אוּרִיָּה, Ivrit Uriyya, Tiberian ʾÛriyyāh) is a male given name and the name of various men in the Tanach , the Hebrew Bible. Literally it means The Lord is my light .
Captain Uria
The captain of King David's Uriah, also Uriah , was the first husband of the beautiful Bathsheba , who became pregnant by the king, in the absence of her husband, and therefore her husband Uriah through the deceit of his king, through his ominous Urias letter to the general Joab , into a deadly one Combat mission was sent. And so King David was able to marry the widow he had made pregnant. The child of this royal desire also died shortly after birth and Bathsheba became the mother of the future King Solomon .
Well-known namesake
- Alexander Uriah Boskovitch (1907–1964), Israeli music teacher and composer
- Uriah Butler (1897–1977), Trinidadian politician, labor leader and preacher
- Uriah Smith Stephens (1821-1882), American union leader
- Uriah Tracy (1755–1807), American politician
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Others
Uriah Heep is the name of a character from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield . The rock band Uriah Heep was named after this character .
See also
- Uria and Urija
- Letter of Urias