Meraioth

Mentioned 1699–444 BC traditional (Jones)

Father of Amariah, a high priest of the line of Eleazar (1 Chr. 6:6, 7, 52).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Zerahiah
Child: Amariah
Tagged in: 6 verses

The 34th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of the Judges, 1450–1051 BC.
Named in the same verses as Zerahiah, Ahitub, Amariah, Hilkiah, Shallum, Zadok, Amariah, and Azariah.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2013–130 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

6 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

1 Chronicles4
Ezra1
Nehemiah1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Meraioth 7
KJV	Meraioth 7
ASV	Meraioth 7

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 6 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Chronicles4 verses

6:6
Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth,
6:7
Meraioth was the father of Amariah, Amariah was the father of Ahitub,
6:52
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
9:11
Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of God’s temple;

Ezra1 verse

7:3
the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

Nehemiah1 verse

11:11
Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of the house of God;

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.