Strong H5584 sensesאֲמַצְיָ֫הוּ

Amaziah

Transliteration
'ămatsyâh 'ămatsyâhû
Pronunciation
{am-ats-yaw'} am-ats-yaw'-hoo

Meaning of the name

Amaziah = "Jehovah is mighty"

The 4 senses of Strong H558

The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H558 appears in 39 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. King of Judah, son of JoashH558G34 verses · 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
  2. Priest of Bethel during Amos' ministryH558J3 verses · Amos
  3. Simeonite, son of JoshahH558H1 verse · 1 Chronicles
  4. Levite, son of HilkiahH558I1 verse · 1 Chronicles

General definition

From H553 and H3050; strength of Jah;
{Amatsjah} the name of four Israelites: - Amaziah.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • amaziah39

First verses

  1. 2 Kings 12:21
    For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
  2. 2 Kings 13:12
    And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  3. 2 Kings 14:1
    In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
  4. 2 Kings 14:8
    Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
  5. 2 Kings 14:9
    And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
  6. 2 Kings 14:11
    But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth–shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
  7. 2 Kings 14:13
    And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth–shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
  8. 2 Kings 14:15
    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which 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?
  9. 2 Kings 14:17
    And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
  10. 2 Kings 14:18
    And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  11. 2 Kings 14:21
    And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
  12. 2 Kings 14:23
    In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
  13. 2 Kings 15:1
    In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
  14. 2 Kings 15:3
    And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
  15. 1 Chronicles 3:12
    Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
  16. 1 Chronicles 4:34
    And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
  17. 1 Chronicles 6:45
    The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
  18. 2 Chronicles 24:27
    Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
  19. 2 Chronicles 25:1
    Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
  20. 2 Chronicles 25:5
    Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.