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# אֲמַצְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Amaziah** — used 31 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

Amaziah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5de_5b7_5e6_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲמַצְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5de_5b7_5e6_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ is mighty). king of Jud., son of Joash, father of Azariah; אֲמַצְיָהוּ 2 K 14:1, 9 + 8 times 2 K 14; 15:3 1 Ch 3:12; 2 Ch 24:27; 25:1 + 15 times 2 Ch 25; 26:1, 4; אֲמַצְיָה 2 K 12:22; 13:12; 14:8; 15:1. אֲמַצְיָה, a Simeonite 1 Ch 4:34. id., a Levite 1 Ch 6:30. priest of Bethel, under Jerob. II, Am 7:10, 12, 14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: Amaziah (28); of Amaziah (2); \[was\] Amaziah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.12/#tree)

אֲמַצְיָ֧הוּ בְנ֛וֹ עֲזַרְיָ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ יוֹתָ֥ם בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].Amaziah son his \[was\].Azariah son his \[was\].Jotham son his

*JPS 1917:* Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son;

[2 Kings 15:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.3/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הַיָּשָׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֖ה אֲמַצְיָ֥הוּ אָבִֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.did the right in the.eyes of.Yahweh according to.all that he.had.done Amaziah father his

*JPS 1917:* And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5de_5b7_5e6_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5de_5b7_5e6_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): 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).