Exaltations, heights, a priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:3), to whom were sent the sacred vessels (Ezra 8:33) belonging to the temple. He took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:4).
Meremoth
Meremoth is a priest’s name that comes up at important moments. When Ezra brought silver, gold and vessels to Jerusalem, they were weighed at the house of God “by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest.” He also appears in Nehemiah 10, among those who sealed the covenant, and again in a list of priests who returned to the land. A person trusted to weigh the offering carefully is trusted with much. Read Ezra 8 to see that scene, with the weights written down and the count made carefully before anything was left.
3 verses
Ezra
Ezra 8:33
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
Nehemiah
Nehemiah 10:5
Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Nehemiah 12:3
Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(elevations),
(1.) Son of Uriah or Urijah the priest, of the family of Koz or Hakkoz, the head of the seventh course of priests as established by David. In (Ezra 8:33) Meremoth is appointed to weigh and register the gold and silver vessels belonging to the temple. In the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah we find Meremoth taking an active part. (Nehemiah 3:4)
(2.) A layman of the sons of Bani, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:36)
(3.) A priest, or more probably a family of priests, who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:5)