URBINO, SALOMON B. ABRAHAM. This distinguished lexicographer, who is also called Rashba=t4"2tri, from the initials of 11 7101:11 IYTIMN, R. Salomon b. Abraham, flourished A.D. 1480, in which year, and not in rsoo, as is stated by Wolf (Bibliotheca Hebreca, ion etc.), he wrote his important lexicon on the synonyms of the O. T., entitled 11/11 7111•1., the Tabernacle of the Gongremlion, in allusion to Exod. xxxiii. 7, cause therein are congreg,ated expressions which differ in sound but are alike in sense' (Irv, iv* raSrinn ravil nnx colvm 1z1). The synonyms are divided into groups, the alphabetical order of which is determined by its most important word. Each group commences with the fixed formula, the word which s put a'own is to teach' (riror6 in4 6V1), being made up front the abbreviation of the title of the work— viz. "rit.tri—and is illustrated by a few quotations from the O. T. and the corresponding passages from the Targum as well as by quotations from Saadia Gaon's A'rabic translation of the Penta teuch (892-942), the works of Dunash Ibn Librat (920-98o), Hai Gaon (969- ro3S), Ibn Ganach (995 105o), Ibn Giath (ro30-1038), Nathan b. Jechiel (ro3o- o6), I bn Balaam oso- tow), Nach rnanides (1193-127o), etc. etc. The Lexicon was published in Venice 1548, and being one of the very few important works OD the synonyms of the O. T., it is greatly to be regretted that it is so exceedingly rare. Even Wolf (Hist. Lexicor. Hebr. p. 63) was not able to obtain it, and Plantavitius only got it when he had nearly completed his Thesaienes Synonymies [PLANTAvrrrus]. Comp. Geiger in
the Leitsehrift a'er den/schen morgenlendis; hen Gesdlsehaf t, vol. xvii. p. 32r, Leipzig 1863 ; Furst, h'ibliotheea Yudaica, 461.—C. D. G.
URIAH (711-11N,fiame of yehovah ; Sept. 0Opias).
I. A Hittite, and therefore a descendant of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, whose name occurs in the list of the worthies' or champions of king David, in whose army he was an officer. He was the husband of Bathsheba ; and while he was absent with the army before Rabbah, David con ceived and gratified a criminal passion for his wife. The king then directed Joab to send him to Jeru salem, but failing to make his presence instrumental in securing Bathsheba from the legal consequences of her misconduct, he sent him back with a letter directing Joab to expose him to the enemy in such a manner as to ensure his destruction. This the unscrupulous Joab accomplished ; and David then took the widow into his own harem (2 Sam. xi. ; xxiii. 39) [DAvio ; BATHSHEBA].
2. A priest in the reign of Ahaz, summoned by Isaiah to be a witness of the prophecy concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Is. viii. 2). He is probably the same as the Urijah of Kings xvi. IS.
3. A priest of the family of Koz (properly Hak koz, cf. r Chron. xxiv. ro) in the days of Ezm (Ezra viii. 33). In Neh. 4, 21, he is called Urijah in the A. V.