achaz · Ahaz

What it means

achaz (אָחָז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ahaz”.

A name meaning "he has grasped" (short form of Jehoahaz). King of Judah, son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah (2 Kings 15:38; 16); also a descendant of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:35).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×19
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×9
• Isaiah×7
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1

• 2 Kings 15:38

  Jotham lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 16:1

  In year seventeen of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.

• 2 Kings 16:2

  Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of YHWH his Elohim like David his father.

• 2 Kings 16:5

  Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem for war, and they besieged Ahaz, but they could not fight.

• 2 Kings 16:7

  Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising against me.”

• 2 Kings 16:8

  Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of YHWH and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and sent to the king of Assyria a bribe.

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria at Damascus, and he saw the altar that was in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, for all its workmanship.

• 2 Kings 16:11

  Uriah the priest built the altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest did, until King Ahaz came from Damascus.

• 2 Kings 16:15

  King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar offer up in smoke the burnt offering of the morning and the grain offering of the evening, and the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their libations; and all the blood of burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice you shall splash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

• 2 Kings 16:16

  Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the stands, and removed from them the basin; and the Sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

• 2 Kings 16:19

  The rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 16:20

  Ahaz lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 17:1

  In year twelve of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king in Samaria over Israel and reigned nine years.

• 2 Kings 18:1

  And it happened in year three of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah, became king.

• 2 Kings 20:11

  Isaiah the prophet cried out to YHWH, and he brought back the shadow on the steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backward ten steps.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of YHWH, the king tore down and broke them from there, and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

• 1 Chronicles 3:13

  Ahaz, his son; Hezekiah, his son; Manasseh, his son;

• 1 Chronicles 8:35

  And the sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

• 1 Chronicles 8:36

  And Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri fathered Moza.

• 1 Chronicles 9:42

  And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri fathered Moza.

• 2 Chronicles 27:9

  Jotham lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 28:1

  Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of YHWH, like David his father;

• 2 Chronicles 28:16

  At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

• 2 Chronicles 28:19

  For YHWH humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had cast off restraint in Judah and had been greatly unfaithful to YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 28:21

  For Ahaz took a portion from the house of YHWH and from the house of the king and from the officials, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it was not of help to him.

• 2 Chronicles 28:22

  In the time of his distress he was even more unfaithful to YHWH, he, King Ahaz.

• 2 Chronicles 28:24

  Ahaz gathered the utensils of the house of Elohim and cut in pieces the utensils of the house of Elohim, and shut the doors of the house of YHWH, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 28:27

  Ahaz lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 29:19

  And all the utensils that King Ahaz rejected during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and sanctified; and there they are before the altar of YHWH.”

• Isaiah 1:1

  The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

• Isaiah 7:1

  It happened in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Aram went up, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but he could not fight against it.

• Isaiah 7:3

  And YHWH said to Isaiah, “Go out, please, to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field,

• Isaiah 7:10

  And YHWH spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

• Isaiah 7:12

  But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put to the test YHWH.”

• Isaiah 14:28

  In the year of the death of King Ahaz this burden came:

• Isaiah 38:8

  Look, I am bringing back the shadow on the steps, which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, backward ten steps.’” And the sun went back ten steps on the steps by which it had gone down.

• Hosea 1:1

  The word of YHWH that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.

• Micah 1:1

  The word of YHWH that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

And 2 more times.