פֶּקַח
pekach · Pekah
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6492 · appears 11 times in the Bible
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pekach (פֶּקַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Pekah”.
A name meaning "open (the eyes)," "one who sees." Captain of King Pekahiah; he killed him and reigned twenty years in Samaria (2 Kings 15:25-31). He attacked Judah together with Rezin of Aram (Isaiah 7:1).
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pe·kach
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.
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Where it appears
- 2 Kings 15:25
Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the citadel of the house of the king, with Argob and with Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites; and he put him to death and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:27
In year fifty-two of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria and reigned twenty years.
- 2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them into exile to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 15:30
Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death and reigned in his place, in year twenty of Jotham son of Uzziah.
- 2 Kings 15:31
The rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, there they are, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 15:32
In year two of Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, became king.
- 2 Kings 15:37
In those days YHWH began to send against Judah Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah.
- 2 Kings 16:1
In year seventeen of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.
- 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 Chronicles 28:6
Pekah son of Remaliah killed in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had abandoned YHWH, the Elohim of their fathers.
- 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.