yehoyada · Jehoiada

What it means

yehoyada (יְהוֹיָדָע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jehoiada”.

The name of several men; among them the father of Benaiah (2 Samuel 8:18) and the priest who protected King Joash (2 Kings 11). It means "YHWH knows."

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 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×12
• 2 Kings×8
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×20
• Jeremiah×1

• 2 Samuel 8:18

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were priests.

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

• 2 Samuel 23:20

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel; he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• 2 Samuel 23:22

  These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

• 1 Kings 1:8

  But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 1:26

  But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Solomon your servant he has not invited.

• 1 Kings 1:32

  And King David said, “Call Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada to me.” And they came before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:36

  And Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, “Amen! May YHWH, the Elohim of my lord the king, say so.

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

• 1 Kings 2:25

  And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he fell upon him, and he died.

• 1 Kings 2:29

  And it was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of YHWH, and there he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall upon him.”

• 1 Kings 2:34

  Then Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his house in the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 2:35

  And the king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest the king put in the place of Abiathar.

• 1 Kings 2:46

  Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 4:4

  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of hundreds of the Carites and of the runners and brought them to him into the house of YHWH; and he made a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of YHWH, and he showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:9

  The commanders of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; each took his men, those who were coming in on the Sabbath with those who were going out on the Sabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of hundreds, those appointed over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever comes after her, put to death with the sword.” For the priest had said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of YHWH.”

• 2 Kings 11:17

  Jehoiada made the covenant between YHWH and the king and the people, that they should be a people for YHWH; and between the king and the people.

• 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 12:7

  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 12:9

  Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the house of YHWH; and the priests who guarded the threshold would put there all the silver that was brought into the house of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 11:22

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel: he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• 1 Chronicles 11:24

  These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

• 1 Chronicles 12:27

  and Jehoiada, the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred;

• 1 Chronicles 18:17

  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were the chief ones at the side of the king.

• 1 Chronicles 27:5

  The third commander of the army, for the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest, as head; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:34

  After Ahithophel came Jehoiada son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the commander of the king’s army was Joab.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

• 2 Chronicles 23:1

  In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and took the commanders of hundreds into a covenant with him: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

• 2 Chronicles 23:8

  The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; each took his men, those who were coming in on the Sabbath with those who were going out on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest had not dismissed the divisions.

• 2 Chronicles 23:9

  Jehoiada the priest gave to the commanders of hundreds the spears and the shields and the bucklers that had belonged to King David, which were in the house of Elohim.

• 2 Chronicles 23:11

  They brought out the king’s son and put on him the crown and the testimony, and made him king; and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Chronicles 23:14

  Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds, those appointed over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever comes after her, let him be put to death with the sword.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death in the house of YHWH.”

• 2 Chronicles 23:16

  Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be a people for YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 23:18

  Jehoiada put the offices of the house of YHWH in the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had divided over the house of YHWH, to offer the burnt offerings of YHWH, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, under the direction of David.

• 2 Chronicles 24:2

  Joash did what was right in the eyes of YHWH all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Chronicles 24:3

  Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he fathered sons and daughters.

• 2 Chronicles 24:6

  The king called Jehoiada the head and said to him, “Why have you not required of the Levites to bring from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy of Moses, the servant of YHWH, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?”

And 11 more times.