amatsya · Amaziah

What it means

amatsya (אֲמַצְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Amaziah”.

A name meaning "YHWH is strong." Best known is the king of Judah, son of Joash (2 Kings 12:21; 14); also a priest of Bethel in Amos's time (Amos 7:10) and two other men (1 Chronicles 4:34; 6:45).

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.

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×15
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×19
• Amos×3

• 2 Kings 12:21

  Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 13:12

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

• 2 Kings 14:1

  In year two of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, became king.

• 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 14:17

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

• 2 Kings 14:18

  The rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 14:21

  All the people of Judah took Azariah, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

• 2 Kings 14:23

  In year fifteen of Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years.

• 2 Kings 15:1

  In year twenty-seven of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king.

• 2 Kings 15:3

  He did what was right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.

• 1 Chronicles 3:12

  Amaziah, his son; Azariah, his son; Jotham, his son;

• 1 Chronicles 4:34

  And Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,

• 1 Chronicles 6:45

  the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

• 2 Chronicles 24:27

  As for his sons, and the abundance of the burden upon him, and the founding of the house of Elohim, they are written in the treatise of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 25:1

  Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 25:5

  Amaziah gathered Judah and set them by fathers’ houses, under commanders of thousands and under commanders of hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin; and he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen men going out to the army, handling spear and large shield.

• 2 Chronicles 25:9

  Amaziah said to the man of Elohim, “And what is to be done about the hundred talents that I have given to the band of Israel?” The man of Elohim said, “YHWH has the means to give you much more than this.”

• 2 Chronicles 25:10

  Amaziah separated them, the band that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their place; and their anger burned greatly against Judah, and they returned to their place in burning anger.

• 2 Chronicles 25:11

  Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck the sons of Seir, ten thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 25:13

  But the members of the band that Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war made raids on the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck of them three thousand, and plundered much plunder.

• 2 Chronicles 25:14

  And it happened, after Amaziah came from striking the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and set them up for himself as gods; and before them he would bow down, and to them he would burn incense.

• 2 Chronicles 25:15

  The anger of YHWH burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people that did not deliver their own people from your hand?”

• 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 25:18

  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 Chronicles 25:20

  But Amaziah did not listen, for it was from Elohim, in order to give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.

• 2 Chronicles 25:21

  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 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 25:26

  The rest of the acts of Amaziah, the first and the last, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

• 2 Chronicles 25:27

  From the time that Amaziah turned away from following YHWH, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.

• 2 Chronicles 26:1

  All the people of Judah took Uzziah, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

• 2 Chronicles 26:4

  He did what was right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.

• Amos 7:10

  Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

• Amos 7:12

  And Amaziah said to Amos, “Seer, go, flee to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and there prophesy.

• Amos 7:14

  And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, and I am not a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.

And 1 more times.