remalyahu · Remaliah

What it means

remalyahu (רְמַלְיָהוּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Remaliah”.

A name the lexicon explains as "YHWH has adorned." Father of Pekah, king of Israel (2 Kings 15:25). In Isaiah 7 Pekah is called simply "the son of Remaliah."

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×7
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×5

• 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 15:30

  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 15:32

  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.

• Isaiah 7:4

  and say to him, ‘Be careful and keep calm; do not fear, and do not let your heart grow faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, at the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

• Isaiah 7:5

  Because Aram has plotted evil against you, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

• Isaiah 7:9

  And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe, surely you will not stand firm.’”

• Isaiah 8:6

  “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that go gently, and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,