Beriah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Beriah
     a gift, or in evil. (1.) One of Asher's four sons, and father of
     Heber (Gen. 46:17).
     
       (2.) A son of Ephraim (1 Chr. 7:20-23), born after the
     slaughter of his brothers, and so called by his father "because


     it went evil with his house" at that time.
     
       (3.) A Benjamite who with his brother Shema founded Ajalon and
     expelled the Gittites (1 Chr. 8:13).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Beriah, in fellowship; in envy