חִזְקִיָּה

chizkiya · Hezekiah

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2396 · appears 130 times in the Bible

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What it means

chizkiya (חִזְקִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Hezekiah”.

A name meaning "YHWH is my strength" or "YHWH strengthens." Best known is the king of Judah, son of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:20; 18-20; Isaiah 36-39); other men also bear it (Zephaniah 1:1; Nehemiah 7:21).

How to say it

chiz·ki·ya

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 16:20
Ahaz lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 18:1
And it happened in year three of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah, became king.
2 Kings 18:9
And it happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
2 Kings 18:10
They captured it at the end of three years; in year six of Hezekiah, that is year nine of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
2 Kings 18:13
In year fourteen of King Hezekiah Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
2 Kings 18:14
Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have sinned; withdraw from me; whatever you put on me I will bear.” The king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:15
Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of YHWH and in the treasuries of the house of the king.
2 Kings 18:16
At that time Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of YHWH and the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave them to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:17
The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.
2 Kings 18:19
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Say, please, to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What is this confidence in which you have trusted?
2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, “In YHWH our Elohim we trust,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, “Before this altar you shall bow down in Jerusalem”?
2 Kings 18:29
Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from his hand.
2 Kings 18:30
And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in YHWH, saying, “YHWH will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 18:31
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: “Make peace with me and come out to me, and eat, each from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each the water of his cistern,
2 Kings 18:32
until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees of oil and honey, so that you may live and not die.” And do not listen to Hezekiah, for he incites you, saying, “YHWH will deliver us.”
2 Kings 18:37
Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
2 Kings 19:1
And it happened, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of YHWH.
2 Kings 19:3
They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of contempt; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
2 Kings 19:5
The servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
2 Kings 19:9
He heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, “Look, he has come out to fight against you.” So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
2 Kings 19:10
“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 19:14
Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them; then he went up to the house of YHWH, and Hezekiah spread it out before YHWH.
2 Kings 19:15
Hezekiah prayed before YHWH and said, “YHWH, Elohim of Israel, who sit on the cherubim, you are the Elohim, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you made the heavens and the earth.
2 Kings 19:20
Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘That which you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2 Kings 20:1
In those days Hezekiah fell sick to the point of death. And Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Give orders to your house, for you are going to die and will not live.’”
2 Kings 20:3
“Ah, YHWH, remember, please, how I have walked before you in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept with great weeping.
2 Kings 20:5
“Go back and say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of YHWH.
2 Kings 20:8
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What is the sign that YHWH will heal me and that I will go up on the third day to the house of YHWH?”
2 Kings 20:10
Hezekiah said, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn back ten steps backward.”
2 Kings 20:12
At that time Berodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
2 Kings 20:13
Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house: the silver, the gold, the spices, and the fine oil, and his armory, and all that was found in his treasuries; there was not a thing that Hezekiah did not show them in his house or in all his dominion.
2 Kings 20:14
Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where do they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “From a distant land they have come, from Babylon.”
2 Kings 20:15
He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah said, “All that is in my house they have seen; there is not a thing that I have not shown them among my treasures.”
2 Kings 20:16
Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of YHWH:
2 Kings 20:19
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Good is the word of YHWH that you have spoken.” And he said, “Is it not so, if there will be peace and truth in my days?”
2 Kings 20:20
The rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 20:21
Hezekiah lay down with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:3
He built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them.
1 Chronicles 3:13
Ahaz, his son; Hezekiah, his son; Manasseh, his son;
1 Chronicles 3:23
And the son of Neariah: Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.

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