MERAIAH.The head of a priestly house (Neh_12:12).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Neh_12:12-13.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mera'iah. (rebellion). A priest, in the day of Joiakim. Neh_12:13.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mḗ-rā?ya, mḗ-rı̄?a (מריה, merāyāh, ?contumacious?): A priest in the time of Joiakim son of Jeshua, and head of the priestly house of Seraiah to which Ezra belonged (Neh_12:12; compare Ezr_7:1).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Meraiah
(Hebrews Merayah', מְרָיוֹת, resistance; Sept. Α᾿μαρία v. r. Μαρέα; Vulg. Maraja), a chief priest, the son of Seraiah, contemporary with the high-priest Joiakim (Neh_12:12). BC. post 536.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.