tsidkiya · Zedekiah

What it means

tsidkiya (צִדְקִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Zedekiah”.

A name meaning "YHWH is righteousness." It is borne by several people, among them the prophet, son of Chenaanah, who announced a false victory to Ahab (1 Kings 22), and the last king of Judah (2 Kings 24:17).

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

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×6
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Jeremiah×48

• 1 Kings 22:11

  Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says YHWH: ‘With these you will gore Aram until they are finished.’”

• 1 Kings 22:24

  Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “Which way did the spirit of YHWH pass from me to speak to you?”

• 2 Kings 24:17

  The king of Babylon made king Mattaniah, his uncle, in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 24:18

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

• 2 Kings 24:20

  For through the anger of YHWH it came to pass in Jerusalem and in Judah, until he cast them from before his face. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:2

  The city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 25:7

  The sons of Zedekiah they slaughtered before his eyes; and the eyes of Zedekiah he blinded, and bound him in bronze chains and brought him to Babylon.

• 1 Chronicles 3:15

  And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn, Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.

• 1 Chronicles 3:16

  And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah, his son; Zedekiah, his son.

• 2 Chronicles 18:10

  Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says YHWH: ‘With these you will gore Aram until they are finished.’”

• 2 Chronicles 18:23

  Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “Which way did the spirit of YHWH pass from me to speak to you?”

• 2 Chronicles 36:10

  At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and had him brought to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of YHWH, and made king over Judah and Jerusalem Zedekiah his brother.

• 2 Chronicles 36:11

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 10:1

  And on what was sealed: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

• Jeremiah 1:3

  and it came in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

• Jeremiah 21:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

• Jeremiah 21:3

  And Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah:

• Jeremiah 21:7

  And afterward, declares YHWH, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he will strike them with the edge of the sword; he will not pity them, and he will not spare, and he will not have compassion.’

• Jeremiah 24:8

  And like the figs that are bad, which cannot be eaten for badness —for thus says YHWH— so will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

• Jeremiah 27:3

  and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;

• Jeremiah 27:12

  And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

• Jeremiah 28:1

  And it happened in that year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah son of Azzur, the prophet, said to me, who was from Gibeon, in the house of YHWH, before the eyes of the priests and of all the people, saying:

• Jeremiah 29:3

  by the hand of Eleasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Babylon, saying:

• Jeremiah 29:21

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsehood in my name: Look, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will strike them down before your eyes.

• Jeremiah 29:22

  And from them a curse will be taken up by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘May YHWH make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,’

• Jeremiah 32:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, that was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

• Jeremiah 32:3

  where Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it;

• Jeremiah 32:4

  and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth will speak with his mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;

• Jeremiah 32:5

  and to Babylon he will take Zedekiah, and there he will remain until I visit him, declares YHWH; though you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed’?”

• Jeremiah 34:2

  “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and say to him: Thus says YHWH: Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.

• Jeremiah 34:4

  Yet hear the word of YHWH, Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says YHWH concerning you: You will not die by the sword.

• Jeremiah 34:6

  And Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem,

• Jeremiah 34:8

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

• Jeremiah 34:21

  And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon that has withdrawn from you.

• Jeremiah 36:12

  and he went down to the house of the king, into the chamber of the scribe; and look, there all the princes were sitting: Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan son of Achbor, and Gemariah son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

• Jeremiah 37:1

  And King Zedekiah son of Josiah reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

• Jeremiah 37:3

  And King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Pray, please, for us to YHWH our Elohim.”

• Jeremiah 37:17

  Then King Zedekiah sent and took him, and the king asked him in his house in secret and said, “Is there a word from YHWH?” And Jeremiah said, “There is.” And he said, “Into the hand of the king of Babylon you will be given.”

• Jeremiah 37:18

  And Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What sin have I committed against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in the prison?

• Jeremiah 37:21

  And King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard, and they gave him a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was used up. So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard.

And 23 more times.