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Lexicon :: Strong's H3058 - yêû'

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יֵהוּא
Transliteration
yêû'
Pronunciation
yay-hoo'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יֵהוּא Yêhûwʼ, yay-hoo'; from H3068 and H1931; Jehovah (is) He; Jehu, the name of five Israelites:—Jehu.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's H3058 in the following manner: Jehu (58x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's H3058 in the following manner: Jehu (58x).

  1. Jehu = "Jehovah is He"

    1. the king of the northern kingdom Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Omri

    2. son of Hanani and an Israelite prophet in the time of Baasha and Jehoshaphat

    3. the Antothite, a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors

    4. a descendant of Judah of the house of Hezron

    5. son of Josibiah and a chief of the tribe of Simeon

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֵהוּא Yêhûwʼ, yay-hoo'; from H3068 and H1931; Jehovah (is) He; Jehu, the name of five Israelites:—Jehu.
STRONGS H3058: Abbreviations
יֵהוּא proper name, masculine (probably contracted from יהוהוא = י׳ is He, compare יֵשׁוּעַ and references; cuneiform Ia-u-a COT 1 Kings 16:23; 2 Kings 9:2 (further SchrMBAW 1880, 277, ZA iii. 3 HptBAS i. 296, 329 Jägerib. 468); compare also אֱלִיהוּ) —
1. king of Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Omri (Greek Version of the LXX Ειὀυ, A often Ἰηου, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰου 1 Kings 19:16, 17 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 9:2 + 36 times 2 Kings 9 & 10 + 2 Kings 12:2; 2 Kings 13:1; 2 Kings 14:8; 2 Kings 15:12; 2 Chronicles 22:7, 8, 9; 25:17; Hosea 1:4.
† 2. prophet of Northern Israel in time of Baasha & Jehoshaphat (Greek Version of the LXX Ειὀυ, A Ειἠου LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰου in Kings; Greek Version of the LXX Ἰου, Ἰησου, A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰηου in Chronicles) 1 Kings 16:1, 7, 12; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 20:34.
† 3. one of David's heroes 1 Chronicles 12:3 (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰηουλ, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰηουδ).
† 4. a Judaite 1 Chronicles 2:38 (twice in verse) (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰηους, A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰηου).
† 5. a Simeonite prince 1 Chronicles 4:35 (Greek Version of the LXX οὗτος i.e. (י)הוּא; A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰηου).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

16:1; 16:7; 16:12; 16:23; 19:16; 19:17

2 Kings

9; 9:2; 9:2; 9:10; 12:2; 13:1; 14:8; 15:12

1 Chronicles

2:38; 4:35; 12:3

2 Chronicles

19:2; 20:34; 22:7; 22:8; 22:9; 25:17

Hosea

1:4

H3058

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3058 matches the Hebrew יֵהוּא (yêû'),
which occurs 58 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 16:1–2Ch 22:7)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:1 - Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani concerning Baasha:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger by the things he did, becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12 - So Zimri destroyed the whole family of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu—

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:16 - Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:2 - When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?” “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:13 - They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, “Jehu is king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:14 - So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram[fn] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:16 - Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.” “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’ ” “What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn’t coming back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19 - So the king sent out a second horseman. When he came to them he said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’ ” Jehu replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 - “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:24 - Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27 - When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.[fn] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:31 - As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 - Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[fn] to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab’s children. He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - So the palace administrator, the city governor, the elders and the guardians sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants and we will do anything you say. We will not appoint anyone as king; you do whatever you think best.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” They said, “We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 - Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:20 - Jehu said, “Call an assembly in honor of Baal.” So they proclaimed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went into the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around and see that no one who serves the LORD is here with you—only servants of Baal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted eighty men outside with this warning: “If one of you lets any of the men I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 - So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:31 - Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:34 - As for the other events of Jehu’s reign, all he did, and all his achievements, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:35 - Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:36 - The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1 - In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash[fn] became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:1 - In the twenty-third year of Joash son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:8 - Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, with the challenge: “Come, let us face each other in battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:12 - So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:38 - Obed the father of Jehu, Jehu the father of Azariah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:35 - Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:3 - Ahiezer their chief and Joash the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth; Berakah, Jehu the Anathothite,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:2 - Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love[fn] those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34 - The other events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:7 - Through Ahaziah’s visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

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