Bible Names

Irijah: meaning of the name

Irijah means “the fear of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Irijah in Hebrew and Greek

יִרְאִיָּיה H3376

Yirʼîyâyh (yir-ee-yaw') — Jirijah, an Israelite

from H3373 (יָרֵא) and H3050 (יָהּ); fearful of Jah;

Who named Irijah in the Bible

Irijah in Scripture

“Irijah” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Jeremiah 37:13

    And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

  • Jeremiah 37:14

    Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.