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Strong's H274 אֲחַזְיָה (achazyah)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's G274 — amemptos (“blameless”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H274
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 30
Books 4

Strong's H274 Quick Answer

Strong's H274 אֲחַזיָה אֲחַזיָהוּ (Achazyah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Achazyah (akh-az-yaw') (or (prolonged) rAchazyahuw {akh-az-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. Jah has seized 2. Achazjah, the name of a Jewish and an Israelite king It has 30 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include name. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Achazyah (akh-az-yaw') (or (prolonged) rAchazyahuw {akh-az-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. Jah has seized 2. Achazjah, the name of a Jewish and an Israelite king
Usage
30 linked usages
Books
4 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
name

Meaning and Definition

Achazyah (akh-az-yaw') (or (prolonged) rAchazyahuw {akh-az-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. Jah has seized 2. Achazjah, the name of a Jewish and an Israelite king [from H270 and H3050] KJV: Ahaziah. Root(s): H270, H3050

Original Word
אֲחַזיָה אֲחַזיָהוּ
Transliteration
Achazyah
Derivation
Root: אחז First root strongs: 270 Second root strongs: 3050
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H274. 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)

Ahaziah

Usage: A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.22.40; son of: Ahab (H0256) and Jezebel (H0348); brother of: Joash (H3101H), Joram (H3141H) and Athaliah (H6271) § Ahaziah = "Jehovah (Yahu) holds (possesses)" 1) ruler of Israel, son of Ahab 2) ruler of Judah, son of Jehoram (Joram)

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How Strong's H274 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Achazyah, 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.

name 2 Kings 8:26

How Strong's H274 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 30 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H274 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 H274 in the Old Testament

30 indexed usages in Old Testament.

1 Kings 22:40 KJV

So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 22:49 KJV

Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

1 Kings 22:51 KJV

Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

Usage Excerpts

First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H274.

1 Kings 22:40 Old Testament, KJV
So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 22:49 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
1 Kings 22:51 Old Testament, KJV
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
2 Kings 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
2 Kings 1:18 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 8:24 Old Testament, KJV
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 8:25 Old Testament, KJV
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2 Kings 8:26 Old Testament, KJV
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:29 Old Testament, KJV
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Kings 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
2 Kings 9:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2 Kings 9:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
2 Kings 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2 Kings 9:29 Old Testament, KJV
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings 10:13 Old Testament, KJV
Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
2 Kings 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2 Kings 12:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 13:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 Kings 14:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
1 Chronicles 3:11 Old Testament, KJV
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
2 Chronicles 20:35 Old Testament, KJV
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
2 Chronicles 20:37 Old Testament, KJV
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles 22:2 Old Testament, KJV
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles 22:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
2 Chronicles 22:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
2 Chronicles 22:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 22:10 Old Testament, KJV
But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22:11 Old Testament, KJV
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H274, grouped by book.

1 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 17 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 9 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H274 FAQ

What does achazyah (אֲחַזְיָה) mean?

Achazyah (Strong's H274) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Ahaziah". Achazyah (akh-az-yaw') (or (prolonged) rAchazyahuw {akh-az-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. Jah has seized 2. Achazjah, the name of a Jewish and an Israelite king

How many times is achazyah (אֲחַזְיָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's H274 across 4 books.

Where can I study achazyah (אֲחַזְיָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H274 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate achazyah (אֲחַזְיָה)?

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