Dictionaries :: Uri

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Uri:

my light, my fire

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Uri:

u'-ri, oo'-ri (uri (uwri in 1Ki 4:19), "fiery," unless the word be contracted for ‘uriyah, "Uriah"):

(1) Son of Hur, and father of Bezalel (Ex 31:2; 35:30; 38:22; 1Ch 2:20; 2Ch 1:5).

(2) Father of Geber, one of Solomon's 12 provision officers (1Ki 4:19; the Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, Adai).

(3) A porter who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:24; the Septuagint's Odouth; Codex Alexandrinus Odoue; Lucian Ourias).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Uri:

(fiery).

(1.) The father of Bezaleel, one of the architects of the tabernacle (Exodus 31:2; 35:30; 38:22; 1 Chronicles 2:20; 2 Chronicles 1:5). He was of the tribe of Judah, and grandson of Caleb ben‐Hezron. (B.C. 1491)

(2.) The father of Geber, Solomon's commissariat officer in Gilead (1 Kings 4:19). (B.C. before 1010)

(3.) One of the gatekeepers of the temple in the time of Ezra (Ezra 10:24). (B.C. 458)