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# יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Hezekiah** — 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

Hezekiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5d7_5b4_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5d7_5b4_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ hath strengthened, י׳ strengtheneth; = Assyrian Ḫazaḳi(i)au, Schr COT on 2 K 18:1 ff., Jäger BAS i, 469; cf. n.pr. יחזק on seal Gann JAs 1883 Feb.–Mar., 134 No. 7;—on format. v. LagBN 134)— 𝔊 Εζεκιας, son of Ahaz, King of Judah, seldom †חִזְקִיָּה 2 K 18:1, 10, 14(×2), 15, 16(×2), also אַנְשֵׁי ח׳ Pr 25:1 †; elsewhere in 2 K (except 20:10) חִזְקִיָּהוּ: 16:20; 18:9 + 34 times, 2 K 18–21 ‖ Is 36:1 + 31 times, Is 36–39; also †Je 26:18, 19 1 Ch 3:13 2 Ch 29:18, 27; 30:24; 32:15; in Ch usually יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ 1 Ch 4:41 2 Ch 28:27 + 35 times 2 Ch 29–33; also 2 K 20:10 Je 15:4, and in title Is 1:1; †יִחִזְקִיָּה Ho 1:1 Mi 1:1 †(if י in these three be not textual error for וְ). חִזְקִיָּה great-great-grandfather of proph. Zephaniah Zp 1:1, 𝔊 τοῦ Εζεκιου, perhaps = 1. 𝔊 Εζεκια(ς), חִזְקִיָּה man of royal Davidic line 1 Ch 3:23 prob. near time of Chr. יְחִזְקִיָּה, 𝔊 Εζεκια(ς), head of a family of returned exiles Ezr 2:16 = חִזְקִיָּה Ne 7:21, cf. also ח׳ Ne 10:18. יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ 𝔊 Εζεκιας, an Ephraimite, Ahaz’s time 2 Ch 28:12.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Hezekiah (32); of Hezekiah (7); Jechizkiah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 30:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.20/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ אֶל־יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ וַיִּרְפָּ֖א אֶת־הָעָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.listened Yahweh to Hezekiah and he.healed (et) the people

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

[2 Chronicles 31:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.11/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ לְהָכִ֧ין לְשָׁכ֛וֹת בְּבֵ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה וַיָּכִֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Hezekiah to prepare rooms in the.house of.Yahweh and they.prepared.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5d7_5b4_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b0_5d7_5b4_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_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).