Strong H3059H3059Hיְהוֹאָחָז
Jehoahaz
One of the 3 senses of Strong H3059
- Transliteration
- yehô'âchâz
- Pronunciation
- yeh-ho-aw-khawz'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
Meaning of the name
Jehoahaz = "Jehovah has seized"
General definition
In the biblical story
Jehoahaz
King of Judah, son of Josiah
Jehoahaz, also known as Johanan, was a king of Judah and the son of Josiah.
In the Bible
Strong H3059H appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- jehoahaz4
First verses
- 2 Kings 23:30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
- 2 Kings 23:31Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
- 2 Kings 23:34And Pharaoh–nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
- 2 Chronicles 36:1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.