MEREMOTH mĕr’ ə mŏth (מְרֵמֹ֖ות, LXX Μαρειμώθ, Μερειμώθ, Μεραμώθ, Μαρεμώθ, meaning uncertain). Seems to be connected with the root which means loftiness or haughtiness. A postexilic masculine personal name.

1. Nehemiah 12:3, in the LXX text (see 2 Esd 22:3, MS א), from the time of Zerubbabel named Mareimoth (cf. Meraioth in the Heb.).

2. Ezra 8:33 mentions a son of Uriah, Meremoth the priest, who weighed the silver and gold brought by Ezra and his company from Babylon. The same Meremoth repaired walls adjacent to the house of one Eliashib (Neh 3:4, 21).

3. Nehemiah 10:5 mentions a Meremoth as a priest who set his seal to Nehemiah’s covenant. He is prob. number 2 above.

4. Ezra 10:36 lists a Meremoth as one who had taken a strange (foreign) wife.