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# יְהוֹיָדָע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3077

**Jehoiada. Compare** — used 51 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

Jehoiada. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3077/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְהוֹיָדָע: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3077/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ knoweth; cf. יְדַעְיָה, אֶלְיָדָע & reff., בְּעֶלְיָדָע)— יְהוֹ׳; 𝔊 usually Ἰωδαε, A sometimes Ἰωιαδαε (2 S 23:30 +), 𝔊L Ἰωαδ (2 S 20:23 Ἰωαδδαι), father of Benaiah (David’s time), in combin. בְּנָיָהוּ בֶּן־יְהוֹ׳ 2 S 8:18; 20:23; 23:20, 22 1 K 1:8, 26, 32, 36, 38, 44; 2:25, 29, 34, 35, 46; 4:4; 1 Ch 1, 24; 18:17; 27:5; יְהוֹיָדָע בֶּן־בְּנָיָהוּ 1 Ch 27:34 is prob. erron. inversion of the usual order; יְהוֹ׳ alone only 1 Ch 12:28 (where called הַנָּגִיד לְאַחֲרֹן). יְהוֹ׳, 𝔊 usually Ἰωδαε A sometimes Ἰωιαδαε etc., (chief) priest at Jerus. in time of Joash 2 K 11:4, 9(×2), 15, 17; 12:3, 8, 10; 2 Ch 22:11; 23:1, 8(×2), 9, 11, 14, 16, 18; 24:2, 3, 6, 12, 14(×2), 15, 17, 20, 22, 25 Je 29:26. יוֹיָדָע a builder at wall of Jerus., with Nehemiah, Ne 3:6 (𝔊 Ἰοειαα, Ἰοειδα, Ἰωδαε, etc.) יוֹ׳ son of h. p. Eliashib Ne 12:10, 11, 22; 13:28 (𝔊 Ἰωδα, Ἰωδαε, Ἰωιαδα).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jehoiada (26); Jehoiada (25).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.4/#tree)

וּבְנָיָ֥הוּ בֶן־יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע עַל־הַצָּבָ֑א וְצָד֥וֹק וְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and Benaiah the.son of.Jehoiada \[was\].over the army and Zadok and Abiathar \[were\].priests

*JPS 1917:* and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

[2 Chronicles 24:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.24.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.24.3/#tree)

וַיִּשָּׂא־ל֥וֹ יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע נָשִׁ֣ים שְׁתָּ֑יִם וַיּ֖וֹלֶד בָּנִ֥ים וּבָנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for him Jehoiada wives two and he.fathered sons and daughters

*JPS 1917:* And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3077/): 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).