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# אֲחַזְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H274

**Ahaziah** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ahaziah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/274/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/274/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath grasped; 𝔊 Ὀχοζ(ε)ιας 1 K 22:52 etc., cf. LagBN 53) king of Isr., son of Ahab 1 K 22:40, 50, 52 2 K 1:18 2 Ch 20:37 (אֲחַזְיָהוּ); + 2 K 1:2 2 Ch 20:35 (אֲחַזְיָה). king of Judah, son of Joram 2 K 8:24, 25; 9:21; 10:13; 11:1; 12:19; 13:1; 14:13 1 Ch 3:11 2 Ch 22:1 + 2 K 1 Ch (all אֲחַזְיָהוּ); 2 K 9:16, 23, 27, 29; 11:2 (אֲחַזְיָה). אַחְזַי a priest Ne 11:13 (for which יַחְזֵרָה 1 Ch 9:12 v. SmListen, Tafel). cf. Arabic احّ viii, + إِخّ = adopt, hence perhaps י׳ hath adopted.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ahaziah (5); O Ahaziah (1); of Ahaziah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 9:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.23/#tree)

וַיַּהֲפֹ֧ךְ יְהוֹרָ֛ם יָדָ֖יו וַיָּנֹ֑ס וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל־אֲחַזְיָ֖הוּ מִרְמָ֥ה אֲחַזְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.turned.around Jehoram hands his and he.fled and he.said to Ahaziah treachery O.Ahaziah

*JPS 1917:* And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah: 'There is treachery, O Ahaziah.'

[2 Kings 9:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.29/#tree)

וּבִשְׁנַת֙ אַחַ֣ת עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לְיוֹרָ֖ם בֶּן־אַחְאָ֑ב מָלַ֥ךְ אֲחַזְיָ֖ה עַל־יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in year one.plus ten year of Joram the.son of.Ahab he.had.become.king Ahaziah over Judah

*JPS 1917:* And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/274.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/274/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).