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# חִלְקִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2518

**Hillkiah** — used 15 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

Hillkiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2518/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִלְקִיָּהוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2518/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my portion is י׳) 𝔊 usually Χελκ(ε)ιας, Χελχιας;— father of Eliakim, Hezekiah’s officer, חלקיהו 2 K 18:18, 26; Is 22:20; 36:3, 22; חלקיה 2 K 18:37. high priest, Josiah’s time, חלקיהו 2 K 22:4, 8, 14; 23:4, 24; 2 Ch 34:9, 14, 15(×2), 18, 20, 22; חלקיה 2 K 22:8, 10, 12 1 Ch 5:39(×2) 9:11; 2 Ch 35:8; Ezr 7:1, cf. also Ne 11:11. חלקיהו father of Jerem. Je 1:1.—The foll. are all חלקיה: Levites: 1 Ch 6:30. 1 Ch 26:11. a priest, contemp. of Ezra Ne 4:8; 12:7, 21. father of Gemariah, an ambassador of Zedekiah to Nebuchadrezzar Je 29:3.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hilkiah (9); of Hilkiah (6).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.30/#tree)

בֶּן־חֲשַׁבְיָ֥ה בֶן־אֲמַצְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Hashabiah the.son of.Amaziah the.son of.Hilkiah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah;

[Nehemiah 12:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.21/#tree)

לְחִלְקִיָּ֣ה חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה לִֽידַֽעְיָ֖ה נְתַנְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* of Hilkiah Hashabiah of Jedaiah Nethanel

*JPS 1917:* of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2518.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2518/): 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).