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Lexicon :: Strong's H2396 - ḥizqîyâ

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חִזְקִיָּה
Transliteration
ḥizqîyâ
Pronunciation
khiz-kee-yaw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

חִזְקִיָּה Chizqîyâh, khiz-kee-yaw'; or חִזְקִיָּהוּ Chizqîyâhûw; also יְחִזְקִיָּה Yᵉchizqîyâh; or יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Yᵉchizqîyâhûw; from H2388 and H3050; strengthened of Jah; Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites:—Hezekiah, Hizkiah, Hizkijah. Compare H3169.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's H2396 in the following manner: Hezekiah (85x), Hizkiah (1x), Hizkijah (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's H2396 in the following manner: Hezekiah (85x), Hizkiah (1x), Hizkijah (1x).

  1. Hezekiah or Hizkiah or Hizkijah = "Jehovah is my strength"

    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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חִזְקִיָּה Chizqîyâh, khiz-kee-yaw'; or חִזְקִיָּהוּ Chizqîyâhûw; also יְחִזְקִיָּה Yᵉchizqîyâh; or יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Yᵉchizqîyâhûw; from H2388 and H3050; strengthened of Jah; Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites:—Hezekiah, Hizkiah, Hizkijah. Compare H3169.
STRONGS H2396: Abbreviations
חִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ, חִזְקִיָּה, [H3169 יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ, יְחִזְקִיָּה] proper name, masculine (י׳ hath strengthened, י׳ stengtheneth; ＝Assyrian Ḫazaḳi(i)au, SchrCOT on 2 Kings 18:1 ff., JägerBAS i, 469; compare proper name יחזק on seal GannJAs 1883 Feb. — Mar., 134 No. 7; — on formative see LagBN 134) —
1. Greek Version of the LXX Εξεκιας, son of Ahaz, King of Judah, seldom חִזְקִיָּה 2 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 18:10, 2 Kings 18:14 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 18:15, 2 Kings 18:16 (twice in verse), also אַנְשֵׁי ח׳ Proverbs 25:1; elsewhere in 2 Kings (except [H3169 2 Kings 20:10]) חִזְקִיָּהוּ: 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Kings 18:9 + 34 times, 2 Kings 18-21 || Isaiah 36:1 + 31 times, Isaiah 36-39; also Jeremiah 26:18, 19; 1 Chronicles 3:13; 2 Chronicles 29:18, 2 Chronicles 29:27; 2 Chronicles 30:24; 2 Chronicles 32:15; in Chronicles usually. יְחִזְקִיָּחוּ 1 Chronicles 4:41; 2 Chronicles 28:27 + 35 times 2 Chronicles 29-33; also [H3169 2 Kings 20:10]; Jeremiah 15:4, and in title Isaiah 1:1; יִחִזְקִיָה Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1 (if י in these three be not text error for וְ).
† 2. חִזְקִיָּה great-great-grandfather of prophet Zephaniah Zephaniah 1:1, Greek Version of the LXXτοῦ Εξεκιου, perhaps ＝1.
† 3. Greek Version of the LXX Εξεκια(ς), חִזְקִיָּה man of royal Davidic line 1 Chronicles 3:23 probably near time of Chronicles.
† 4. יְחִזְקִיָּה, Greek Version of the LXX Εξεκια(ς), head of a family of returned exiles Ezra 2:16 = חִזְקִיָּה Nehemiah 7:21, compare also ח׳ Nehemiah 10:18 [Nehemiah 10:17].
† 5. יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ Greek Version of the LXX Εξεκιας, an Ephraimite, Ahaz's time [H3169 2 Chronicles 28:12].
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

16:20; 18:1; 18:1; 18:9; 18:10; 18:14; 18:15; 18:16

1 Chronicles

3:13; 3:23; 4:41

2 Chronicles

28:27; 29:18; 29:27; 30:24; 32:15

Ezra

2:16

Nehemiah

7:21; 10:17

Proverbs

25:1

Isaiah

1:1; 36:1

Jeremiah

15:4; 26:18; 26:19

Hosea

1:1

Micah

1:1

Zephaniah

1:1

H2396

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2396 matches the Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (ḥizqîyâ),
which occurs 130 times in 119 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (2Ch 30:18–Isa 37:15)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD pardon everyone

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:20 - And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:22 - And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:24 - For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:2 - And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the LORD and to give thanks and praise.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:8 - When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:9 - And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:11 - Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:13 - while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:20 - Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:2 - And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:8 - With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:9 - After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:15 - Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:16 - And his servants said still more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:20 - Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:22 - So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:23 - And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:24 - In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD, and he answered him and gave him a sign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:25 - But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:26 - But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:27 - And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:32 - Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:33 - And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:16 - The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:21 - The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:17 - Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:1 - These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh[fn] from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 - And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:7 - But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:14 - Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me[fn] and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:22 - Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1 - As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:3 - They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:5 - When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush,[fn] “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:14 - Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:15 - And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

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