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# אָחָז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H271

**Ahaz** — used 41 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

Ahaz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/271/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָחָז: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/271/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (he hath grasped, abbrev. for יהואחז (q.v.) cf. Assyrian Ia-u-ḫa-zi (i.e. Ahaz) COT on 2 K 16:8) king of Judah, son of Jotham, father of Hezekiah 2 K 15:38; 16:1, 2, 5, 7, 8 + 13 times 2 K; Is 1:1; 7:1, 3, 10, 12; 14:28; 38:8; 1 Ch 3:13, 2 Ch 27:9 + 8 times 2 Ch; Ho 1:1 Mi 1:1. son of Micah, & great-grandson of Jonathan 1 Ch 8:35, 36; 9:42 (+ 9:41 cf. 𝔊L 𝔙).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ahaz (34); of Ahaz (6); \[was\] Ahaz (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.10/#tree)

וַיּ֣וֹסֶף יְהוָ֔ה דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶל־אָחָ֖ז לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.repeated Yahweh to.speak to Ahaz (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying:

[1 Chronicles 3:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.13/#tree)

אָחָ֥ז בְּנ֛וֹ חִזְקִיָּ֥הוּ בְנ֖וֹ מְנַשֶּׁ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].Ahaz son his \[was\].Hezekiah son his \[was\].Manasseh son his

*JPS 1917:* Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/271.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/271/): 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).