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Reaiah meaning

Reaiah in Biblical Hebrew
ראיה
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🔼The name Reaiah: Summary

Meaning
Vision Of Yah
Etymology
From (1) the verb ראה (ra'a), to see or understand, and (2) יה (yah), the shortened name of the Lord.
Related names
• Via ראה (ra'a): Beer-lahai-roi, Berodach-baladan, Ezra(h), Gether, Haroeh, Irijah, Jeriah, Jeriel, Mamre, Moriah, Reuben, Ruth, Sisera, YHWH-jireh
• Via יה (yah): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of yah-names.

🔼The name Reaiah in the Bible

There are three men named Reaiah in the Bible:

  • A descendant of Judah, namely the son of Shobal and the father of Jahath (1 Chronicles 4:2). This man is called Haroeh in 1 Chronicles 2:52. These two names may seem very different in English but in Hebrew it's obvious that both these names contain the same verbal element.
  • A son of Micah of the tribe of Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:5).
  • A patriarch of a family of temple servants, which returned from the Babylonian exile (Ezra 2:47, Nehemiah 7:50).

🔼Etymology of the name Reaiah

The name Reaiah consists of two elements, the final one being יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), which in turn are abbreviated forms of the Tetragrammaton יהוה, YHWH, or Yahweh.

The first element of our name comes from the verb ראה (ra'a), meaning to see:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
ראה

The verb ראה (ra'a) means to see, and by extension to understand. It may mean to become visible (of, say, an angel) or to become understandable (of, say, a theory). Noun ראה (ro'eh) means either seer, or prophetic vision, and noun מראה (mar'a) means either vision as means of revelation, or mirror. Nouns ראית (re'ut) and ראות (re'ut) mean a looking. Nouns ראי (ro'i) and מראה (mar'eh) mean sight or appearance. Adjective ראה (ra'eh) means seeing.

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🔼Reaiah meaning

For a meaning of the name Reaiah, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads a rather curious Yahweh Has Provided For. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has Vision Of The Lord. And BDB Theological Dictionary proposes Yah Has Seen.