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# עֲתַלְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Athaliah** — used 10 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

Athaliah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dc_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲתַלְיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dc_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. et m. (? י׳ is exalted);— f. Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, mother of Ahaziah king of Judah, Γοθολια: -יָתוּ 2 K 8:26; 11:2, 20 = 2 Ch 22:2, 10, 11; 23:12, 13, 21; 24:7; -יָה 2 K 11:1, 3, 13, 14; 2 Ch 22:12. m. 1 Ch 8:26 Ογοθολια. Ezr 8:7 Αθελει, A Αθλια; 𝔊L Γοθονίου (genit.). עַתְלָ֑י one with foreign wife Ezr 10:28, Θαλι, A Οθαλι.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Athaliah (8); \[was\] Athaliah (2).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 23:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.23.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.23.21/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂמְח֥וּ כָל־עַם־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהָעִ֣יר שָׁקָ֑טָה וְאֶת־עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ הֵמִ֥יתוּ בֶחָֽרֶב׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.rejoiced all the.people of the.land and the city it.was.at.peace and (et) Athaliah they.had.put.to.death with the sword

*JPS 1917:* So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and they slew Athaliah with the sword.

[2 Kings 11:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.20/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂמַ֥ח כָּל־עַם־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהָעִ֣יר שָׁקָ֑טָה וְאֶת־עֲתַלְיָ֛הוּ הֵמִ֥יתוּ בַחֶ֖רֶב בֵּ֥ית הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.rejoiced all the.people of the.land and the city it.was.at.peace and (et) Athaliah they.had.put.to.death with the sword the.house of the.king

*JPS 1917:* So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and they slew Athaliah with the sword at the king's house.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5ea_5b7_5dc_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).