Bible Names

Moriah: meaning of the name

Moriah means “bitterness of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Moriah in Hebrew and Greek

מוֹרִיָּה H4179

Môwrîyâh (mo-ree-yaw') — Morijah, a hill in Palestine

or מֹרִיָּה; from H7200 (רָאָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); seen of Jah;

Places named Moriah

Moriah in Scripture

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

  • Genesis 22:2

    And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

  • 2 Chronicles 3:1

    Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.