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Strong's H558 אֲמַצְיָה (amatsyah)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's G558 — apeleutheros (“freeman”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H558
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 4

Strong's H558 Quick Answer

Strong's H558 אֲמַציָה אֲמַציָהוּ (Amatsyah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Amatsyah (am-ats-yaw') (or mAmatsyahuw {am-ats-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. strength of Jah 2. Amatsjah, the name of four Israelites It has 39 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include four and name. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Amatsyah (am-ats-yaw') (or mAmatsyahuw {am-ats-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. strength of Jah 2. Amatsjah, the name of four Israelites
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
4 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
four and name

Meaning and Definition

Amatsyah (am-ats-yaw') (or mAmatsyahuw {am-ats-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. strength of Jah 2. Amatsjah, the name of four Israelites [from H553 and H3050] KJV: Amaziah. Root(s): H553, H3050

Original Word
אֲמַציָה אֲמַציָהוּ
Transliteration
Amatsyah
Derivation
Root: אמץ First root strongs: 553 Second root strongs: 3050
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H558. 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)

Amaziah

Usage: A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.12.21; son of: Joash (H3101I) and Jehoaddan (H3086); married to Jecoliah (H3203); father of: Uzziah (H5818) § Amaziah = "Jehovah is mighty" 1) a king of Judah, son Joash, father of Azariah 2) a priest of Bethel under Jeroboam II 3) father of Joshah, of the tribe of Simeon 4) a Levite tabernacle singer in David's day

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How Strong's H558 Is Translated

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

How Strong's H558 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 H558 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 H558 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

2 Kings 12:21 KJV

For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 13:12 KJV

And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14:1 KJV

In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H558.

2 Kings 12:21 Old Testament, KJV
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 Kings 14:8 Old Testament, KJV
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
2 Kings 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Kings 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
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.
2 Kings 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Kings 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 14:23 Old Testament, KJV
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
2 Kings 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
1 Chronicles 3:12 Old Testament, KJV
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 4:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles 6:45 Old Testament, KJV
The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
2 Chronicles 24:27 Old Testament, KJV
Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 25:1 Old Testament, KJV
Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
2 Chronicles 25:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
2 Chronicles 25:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
2 Chronicles 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
2 Chronicles 25:13 Old Testament, KJV
But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
2 Chronicles 25:14 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
2 Chronicles 25:15 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
2 Chronicles 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
2 Chronicles 25:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles 25:20 Old Testament, KJV
But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:21 Old Testament, KJV
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Chronicles 25:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Chronicles 25:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Chronicles 25:26 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2 Chronicles 25:27 Old Testament, KJV
Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
2 Chronicles 26:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 26:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
Amos 7:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
Amos 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
Amos 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H558, grouped by book.

2 Kings 14 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 19 usages, Old Testament
Amos 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H558 FAQ

What does amatsyah (אֲמַצְיָה) mean?

Amatsyah (Strong's H558) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Amaziah". Amatsyah (am-ats-yaw') (or mAmatsyahuw {am-ats-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. strength of Jah 2. Amatsjah, the name of four Israelites

How many times is amatsyah (אֲמַצְיָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H558 across 4 books.

Where can I study amatsyah (אֲמַצְיָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H558 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate amatsyah (אֲמַצְיָה)?

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