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Lexicon :: Strong's H271 - 'āḥāz

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אָחָז
Transliteration
'āḥāz
Pronunciation
aw-khawz'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אָחָז ʼÂchâz, aw-khawz'; from H270; possessor; Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite:—Ahaz.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H271 in the following manner: Ahaz (41x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H271 in the following manner: Ahaz (41x).

  1. Ahaz = "he has grasped"

    1. king of Judah, son Jotham, father of Hezekiah

    2. a Benjamite, son of Micah, and great grandson of Jonathan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָחָז ʼÂchâz, aw-khawz'; from H270; possessor; Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite:—Ahaz.
STRONGS H271: Abbreviations
אָחָז proper name, masculine (he hath grasped, abbreviation for יהואחז (which see) compare Assyrian Ia-u-ḫa-zi (i.e. Ahaz) COT on 2 Kings 16:8)
1. king of Judah, son of Jotham, father of Hezekiah 2 Kings 15:38; 2 Kings 16:1, 2, 5, 7, 8; + 13 times 2 Kings; Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 7:1, 3, 10, 12; Isaiah 14:28; Isaiah 38:18; 1 Chronicles 3:13; 2 Chronicles 27:9 + 8 times 2 Chronicles; Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1.
2. son of Micah, & great-grandson of Jonathan 1 Chronicles 8:35, 36; 1 Chronicles 9:42 (+ 1 Chronicles 9:41 compare LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Vulgate).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

15:38; 16:1; 16:2; 16:5; 16:7; 16:8; 16:8

1 Chronicles

3:13; 8:35; 8:36; 9:41; 9:42

2 Chronicles

27:9

Isaiah

1:1; 7:1; 7:3; 7:10; 7:12; 14:28; 38:18

Hosea

1:1

Micah

1:1

H271

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H271 matches the Hebrew אָחָז ('āḥāz),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38 - Jotham slept with his fathers [in death], and was buried with them in the City of David his father (ancestor). Ahaz his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:1 -

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his father (ancestor) David had done.

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Then Rezin the king of Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome and conquer him.

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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the kings of Aram and of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8 - And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent a gift to the king of Assyria.

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Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria, and saw the pagan altar which was at Damascus. Then King Ahaz sent a model of the altar to Urijah the priest along with a [detailed] pattern for all its construction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - So Urijah the priest built an altar; in accordance with everything that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, that is how Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz returned from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon the great [new] altar, burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their grain offering and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on the new altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the [old] bronze altar shall be kept for me to use to [fn]examine the sacrifices.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:16 - Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.

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Then King Ahaz cut away the frames of the basin stands [in the temple], and removed the basin from [each of] them; and he took down the [large] Sea from the bronze oxen which were under it, and put it on a plastered stone floor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:19 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20 - So Ahaz slept with his fathers [in death] and was buried with his fathers in the City of David; and his son Hezekiah became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:1 -

In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for nine years.

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Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow on the steps ten steps backward by which it had gone down on the [fn]sundial of Ahaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The altars [dedicated to the starry host of heaven] which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD, the king tore down; and he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:13 - Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:35 - The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:36 - Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:42 - Ahaz became the father of Jarah, and Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:9 - And Jotham slept with his fathers [in death], and they buried him in the City of David. Ahaz his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:1 -

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the sight of the LORD, as his father (forefather) David had done.

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At that time King Ahaz sent word to the king of Assyria [to ask him] for help.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19 - For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for Ahaz had allowed unrestrained and undisciplined behavior in Judah and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - Although Ahaz took a portion [of treasure] from the house of the LORD and from the house (palace) of the king and from the leaders, and gave it [as tribute] to the king of Assyria, it did not help Ahaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 -

In the time of his distress, this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:24 - Then Ahaz collected the utensils of the house of God and he cut them in pieces; and he shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:27 - And Ahaz slept with his fathers [in death], and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, but they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - “Moreover, we have prepared and consecrated all the utensils which King Ahaz had discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness; and behold, they are in front of the altar of the LORD.”

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The vision of [the prophet] Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning [the kingdom of] Judah and [its capital] Jerusalem, which he saw [as revealed by God] during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of [fn]Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

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Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son [fn]Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the [fn]Fuller’s Field;

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Then the LORD spoke again to [King] Ahaz, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz said, “[fn]I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!”

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In the year that King Ahaz [of Judah] died this [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) came:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - “Listen carefully, I will turn the shadow on the stairway [denoting the time of day] ten steps backward, the shadow on the stairway ([fn]sundial) of Ahaz.” And the sunlight went ten steps backward on the stairway where it had [previously] gone down.

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The word of the LORD that came to 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.

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The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw [through divine revelation] concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

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