Lexical Definition

‎חִזְקִיָּה‎ Chizqîyâh (khiz-kee-yaw') Hezekiah ^N:N-M-P
or חִזְקִיָּהוּ Chizqîyâhûw (khiz-kee-yaw'-hoo); also יְחִזְקִיָּה Yᵉchizqîyâh (yekh-iz-kee-yaw'); or יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Yᵉchizqîyâhûw (yekh-iz-kee-yaw'-hoo); from ‎חָזַק‎ and ‎יָהּ‎; strengthened of Jah

Hezekiah, Hizkiah, Hizkijah. Compare ‎יְחִזְקִיָּה‎.

• § Hezekiah or Hizkiah or Hizkijah = "Jehovah is my strength"
• Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites

1) 12th king of Judah, son of Ahaz and Abijah; a good king in that he served Jehovah and did away with idolatrous practices
2) great-great-grandfather of Zephaniah the prophet
3) son of Neariah, a descendant of David
4) head of a family of returning exiles in the time of Nehemiah

See Greek: Ἐζεκίας

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ‎, ‎חִזְקִיָּה‎, ‎יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ‎, ‎יְחִזְקִיָּה‎ proper name, masculine (‎׳‎‎י‎ hath strengthened, ‎׳‎‎י‎ stengtheneth; = Assyrian –aza‡i
(i)au, Schr^COT on 2Kgs 18:1ff., Jäger^{BAS i, 469}; compare proper name ‎יחזק‎ on seal Gann^{JAs 1883 Feb. — Mar., 134 No. 7}; — on formative see Lag^{BN 134}) —

1. ᵐ5 Εξεκιας, son of Ahaz, King of Judah, seldom ‎חִזְקִיָּה‎ 2Kgs 18:1; 2Kgs 18:10; 2Kgs 18:14 (twice in verse); 2Kgs 18:15; 2Kgs 18:16 (twice in verse), also ‎׳‎‎אַנְשֵׁי ח‎ Prov 25:1 ; elsewhere in 2 Kings (except Prov 20:10) ‎חִזְקִיָּהוּ‎: Prov 16:20; Prov 18:9 + 34 t., 2 Ki 18-21 || Isa 36:1 + 31 t., Isa 36-39; also Jer 26:18; Jer 26:19; 1Chr 3:13; 2Chr 29:18; 2Chr 29:27; 2Chr 30:24; 2Chr 32:15 in Chronicles use. ‎יְחִזְקִיָּחוּ‎ 1Chr 4:41; 2Chr 28:27 + 35 t. 2 Chron 29-33; also 2Kgs 20:10; Jer 15:4, and in title Isa 1:1 ‎יִחִזְקִיָה‎ Hos 1:1; Mic 1:1 (if ‎י‎ in these three be not text error for ‎וְ‎).

2. ‎חִזְקִיָּה‎ great-great-grandfather of prophet Zephaniah Zeph 1:1, ᵐ5 τοῦ Εξεκιου, perhaps =

1.

3. ᵐ5 Εξεκια(ς), ‎חִזְקִיָּה‎ man of royal Davidic line 1Chr 3:23 probably near time of Char.

4. ‎יְחִזְקִיָּה‎, ᵐ5 Εξεκια(ς), head of a family of returned exiles Ezra 2:16 = ‎חִזְקִיָּה‎ Neh 7:21, compare also ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Neh 10:18*.

5. ‎יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ‎ ᵐ5 Εξεκιας, an Ephraimite, Ahaz's time 2Chr 28:12.

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