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Strong's H271 אָחָז (achaz)

Achaz means “Ahaz” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G271 — amethystos (“amethyst”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H271
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 6

Strong's H271 Quick Answer

Strong's H271 אָחָז (Achaz) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Achaz (aw-khawz') n/p. 1. possessor 2. Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite It has 39 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include king, ahaz, kings, and king's. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Achaz (aw-khawz') n/p. 1. possessor 2. Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
6 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
king, ahaz, kings, and king's

Meaning and Definition

Achaz (aw-khawz') n/p. 1. possessor 2. Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite [from H270] KJV: Ahaz. Root(s): H270

Original Word
אָחָז
Transliteration
Achaz
Derivation
Root: אחז First root strongs: 270
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H271. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Ahaz

Usage: A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.38; son of: Jotham (H3147H); married to Abi (H0021); father of: Hezekiah (H2396) and Maaseiah (H4641J) Also named: Achaz (Ἀχάζ "Ahaz" G0881) § Ahaz = "he has grasped" 1) king of Judah, son Jotham, father of Hezekiah 2) a Benjamite, son of Micah, and great grandson of Jonathan

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How Strong's H271 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Achaz, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

king 2 Kings 16:1 19× Ahaz 2 Kings 15:38 15× kings 2 Kings 16:19 king's 2 Kings 16:8

How Strong's H271 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H271 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H271 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

2 Kings 15:38 KJV

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 16:1 KJV

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 16:2 KJV

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H271.

2 Kings 15:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
2 Kings 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
2 Kings 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
2 Kings 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
2 Kings 16:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:15 Old Testament, KJV
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
2 Kings 16:16 Old Testament, KJV
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
2 Kings 16:17 Old Testament, KJV
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.
2 Kings 16:19 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 16:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 17:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2 Kings 18:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
2 Kings 23:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
1 Chronicles 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles 8:35 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 8:36 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,
1 Chronicles 9:42 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;
2 Chronicles 27:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 28:1 Old Testament, KJV
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
2 Chronicles 28:16 Old Testament, KJV
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles 28:19 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
2 Chronicles 28:21 Old Testament, KJV
For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
2 Chronicles 28:22 Old Testament, KJV
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles 28:24 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 28:27 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 29:19 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
Isaiah 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah 7:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah 7:3 Old Testament, KJV
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Isaiah 7:10 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Isaiah 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
Isaiah 14:28 Old Testament, KJV
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
Isaiah 38:8 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Hosea 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Micah 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H271, grouped by book.

2 Kings 17 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 9 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H271 FAQ

What does achaz (אָחָז) mean?

Achaz (Strong's H271) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Ahaz". Achaz (aw-khawz') n/p. 1. possessor 2. Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite

How many times is achaz (אָחָז) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H271 across 6 books.

Where can I study achaz (אָחָז) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H271 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate achaz (אָחָז)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as king, ahaz, kings, and king's. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.