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Uriah

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Uriah (yrī`ə), husband of Bath-sheba Bath-sheba (băth`-shēbə, –shē`bə), in the Bible, wife of Uriah the Hittite.
..... Click the link for more information. . An alternate form is Urias. For others called Uriah in the Bible, see Urijah 1 High priest under King Ahaz. An alternate form is Uriah.

2 Prophet killed by King Jehoiakim.

3 Ancestor of a priestly family. An alternte form is Uriah.

4 Companion of Ezra.
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Uriah
Old Testament a Hittite officer, who was killed in battle on instructions from David so that he could marry Uriah's wife Bathsheba (II Samuel 11)
Uriah
letter Uriah carries David’s letter ordering his own death. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:15]
See : Treachery


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He had undergone some strange experiences in his absence; he had seen the virtual Faustina in the literal Cornelia, a spiritual Lucretia in a corporeal Phryne; he had thought of the woman taken and set in the midst as one deserving to be stoned, and of the wife of Uriah being made a queen; and he had asked himself why he had not judged Tess constructively rather than biographically, by the will rather than by the deed?
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Not the spare room, of course -- old maids can't aspire to spare rooms, and I shall be as 'umble as Uriah Heep, and quite content with a little over-the-porch or off-the-parlor cubby hole.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Uriah Heap's father was a very poor judge of human nature, or he would not have told his son, as he did, that people liked humbleness.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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