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2 Chronicles 29:1
“Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2396 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites
- Derivation
- or חִזְקִיָּהוּ; also יְחִזְקִיָּה; or יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ; from H2388 (חָזַק) and H3050 (יָהּ); strengthened of Jah;
- KJV renderings
- Hezekiah, Hizkiah, Hizkijah. Compare H3169 (יְחִזְקִיָּה).
- Grammar
- יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 130 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Kings 16:202 Kings 18:12 Kings 18:92 Kings 18:102 Kings 18:13
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חִזְקִיָּה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.