yehoachaz · Jehoahaz

What it means

yehoachaz (יְהוֹאָחָז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jehoahaz”.

A name meaning "YHWH has grasped" (holds by the hand). Borne by a son of Jehu, king of Israel (2 Kings 10:35; 13:1), by a son of Josiah, king of Judah (2 Kings 23:30), and it is another form of the name of Ahaziah son of Joram (2 Chronicles 21:17).

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×15
• 2 Chronicles×5

• 2 Kings 10:35

  Jehu lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 13:1

  In year twenty-three of Joash son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria and reigned seventeen years.

• 2 Kings 13:4

  Jehoahaz pleaded before YHWH, and YHWH listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Aram oppressed them.

• 2 Kings 13:7

  For he had not left Jehoahaz any people except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had made them perish and made them like the dust at threshing.

• 2 Kings 13:8

  The rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

• 2 Kings 13:9

  Jehoahaz lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 13:10

  In year thirty-seven of Joash king of Judah, Joash son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria and reigned sixteen years.

• 2 Kings 13:22

  Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

• 2 Kings 13:25

  Then Joash son of Jehoahaz again took the cities from the hand of Ben-hadad son of Hazael that he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash struck him, and he brought back the cities of Israel.

• 2 Kings 14:8

  Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look each other in the face.”

• 2 Kings 14:17

  Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.

• 2 Kings 23:30

  His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

• 2 Kings 23:31

  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

• 2 Kings 23:34

  Pharaoh Neco made king Eliakim son of Josiah in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away, and he came to Egypt and died there.

• 2 Chronicles 21:17

  They came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away captive all the goods that were found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives; and there was not left to him a son except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

• 2 Chronicles 25:17

  Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look each other in the face.”

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, Joash king of Israel seized at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 25:25

  Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.

• 2 Chronicles 36:1

  The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.

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