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# עֲזַרְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Azariah** — used 16 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

Azariah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d6_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲזַרְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. Azariah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d6_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ hath helped); Azariah (OHeb. עזריהו, Ph. עזרבעל, Old Aramaic הדדעזר, הדעדר, Lzb338, 258 Cook42);—Αζαριας: king of Judah (Assyrian Azriyâʾû COT 2 K 15:1 JägerBAS i. 468) עֲוַרְיָהוּ 2 K 15:6, 8; עֲוַרְיָה 14:21; 15:1, 7, 17, 23, 27; 1 Ch 3:12 (v. עֻזִּיָּה). -יָהוּ officer of Sol. 1 K 4:5. id. prophet 2 Ch 15:1. sons of Jehosh.: id., 2 Ch 21:2. -יָה v 2. priests: -יָהוּ 1 K 4:2 = -יָה 1 Ch 5:36, 37; Ezr 7:3. -יָה 1 Ch 5:35(×2). id., 1 Ch 5:39, 40; 9:11; Ezr 7:1. id., Ne 10:3. -יָהוּ 2 Ch 31:10, 13, = -יָה 26:17, 20. Levites, -יָהוּ: 2 Ch 29:12. v 12. -יָה: 1 Ch 6:21. Ne 8:7. -יָהוּ a temple captain 2 Ch 23:1 a (van d. H. -יָה cf. Ginsbmargin), v 1 b. -יָה wall-builder Ne 3:23, 24. -יָה one with Zerub. 7:7 (שְׂרָיָה ‖ Ezr 2:2). 10. -יָה 12:33. 11. -יָהוּ Ephraimite 2 Ch 28:12. 12. -יָה name in Judah: son of Ethan (!) 1 Ch 2:8. v 38, 39.\*—For עֲזַרְיָה 2 Ch 22:6 read אֲחַזְיָה, cf. v 7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 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: Azariah (13); of Azariah (2); Azariahu (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 15:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.15.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.15.1/#tree)

וַעֲזַרְיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־עוֹדֵ֔ד הָיְתָ֥ה עָלָ֖יו ר֥וּחַ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Azariah the.son of.Oded it.was on him the.spirit of.God

*JPS 1917:* And the spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded;

[1 Kings 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.2/#tree)

וְאֵ֥לֶּה הַשָּׂרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁר־ל֑וֹ עֲזַרְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־צָד֖וֹק הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the officials who \[belonged\].to him Azariah the.son of.Zadok \[was\].the priest

*JPS 1917:* And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d6_5b7_5e8_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/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d6_5b7_5e8_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).