yehoash · Joash

What it means

yehoash (יְהוֹאָשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Joash”.

(the long Hebrew form of the name, Jehoash). It means "YHWH has given." Two kings bear it: Joash of Judah, son of Ahaziah, saved as a child and made king at seven (2 Kings 11–12), and Joash of Israel, son of Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13–14).

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 11:21

  Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.

• 2 Kings 12:1

  In year seven of Jehu Joash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Zibiah of Beersheba.

• 2 Kings 12:2

  Joash did what was right in the eyes of YHWH all his days, in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

• 2 Kings 12:4

  Joash said to the priests, “All the silver of the holy things that is brought into the house of YHWH, the silver of the one who passes the census, the silver of the persons according to the valuation of each one, all the silver that it comes up in anyone’s heart to bring into the house of YHWH,

• 2 Kings 12:6

  And it happened in year twenty three years of King Joash that the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

• 2 Kings 12:7

  King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the breaches of the house? Now do not take silver from your acquaintances, but for the breaches of the house you are to give it.”

• 2 Kings 12:18

  Joash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Joram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of YHWH and of the house of the king, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

• 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 13:25

  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 14:9

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then an animal of the field that is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

• 2 Kings 14:11

  But Amaziah did not listen. So Joash king of Israel went up, and they looked each other in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

• 2 Kings 14:13

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

• 2 Kings 14:15

  The rest of the acts of Joash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

• 2 Kings 14:16

  Joash lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

• 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.

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