Bible dictionaries

Uriel

What Bible dictionaries say about “Uriel”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Uriel - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

God is my light. (1.) A Levite of the family of Kohath (1 Chr. 6:24).

(2.) The chief of the Kohathites at the time when the ark was brought up to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:5, 11).

(3.) The father of Michaiah, one of Rehoboam's wives, and mother of Abijah (2 Chr. 13:2).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

A Kohathite Levite, son of Tahath. (1 Chronicles 6:24)
Chief of the Kohathites in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 15:5,11) (B.C. 1043.)
Uriel of Gibeah was the father of Maachah or Michaiah the favorite wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah. (2 Chronicles 13:2) (B.C. before 973.) In (2 Chronicles 11:20) she is called "Maachah the daughter of Absalom." Probably her mother, Tamer, was the daughter of Absalom.

Additional entry

(the fire of God), an angel named only in 2 Esdr. 4:1,36; 5:20; 10:28.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3