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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 1 / 3 (2Ki 16:20–2Ch 30:1)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20 - When Ahaz died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Hezekiah became the next king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:1 - Hezekiah son of Ahaz began to rule over Judah in the third year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:9 - During the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked the city of Samaria and began a siege against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:10 - Three years later, during the sixth year of King Hezekiah’s reign and the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel, Samaria fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign,[fn] King Sennacherib of Assyria came to attack the fortified towns of Judah and conquered them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:14 - King Hezekiah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. I will pay whatever tribute money you demand if you will only withdraw.” The king of Assyria then demanded a settlement of more than eleven tons of silver and one ton of gold.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:15 - To gather this amount, King Hezekiah used all the silver stored in the Temple of the LORD and in the palace treasury.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:16 - Hezekiah even stripped the gold from the doors of the LORD’s Temple and from the doorposts he had overlaid with gold, and he gave it all to the Assyrian king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent his commander in chief, his field commander, and his chief of staff[fn] from Lachish with a huge army to confront King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The Assyrians took up a position beside the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19 - Then the Assyrian king’s chief of staff told them to give this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the great king of Assyria says: What are you trusting in that makes you so confident?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - “But perhaps you will say to me, ‘We are trusting in the LORD our God!’ But isn’t he the one who was insulted by Hezekiah? Didn’t Hezekiah tear down his shrines and altars and make everyone in Judah and Jerusalem worship only at the altar here in Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:29 - This is what the king says: Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you. He will never be able to rescue you from my power.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Don’t let him fool you into trusting in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - “Don’t listen to Hezekiah! These are the terms the king of Assyria is offering: Make peace with me—open the gates and come out. Then each of you can continue eating from your own grapevine and fig tree and drinking from your own well.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - Then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one—a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards, olive groves and honey. Choose life instead of death!
“Don’t listen to Hezekiah when he tries to mislead you by saying, ‘The LORD will rescue us!’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:37 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian, went back to Hezekiah. They tore their clothes in despair, and they went in to see the king and told him what the Assyrian chief of staff had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1 - When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put on burlap and went into the Temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:5 - After King Hezekiah’s officials delivered the king’s message to Isaiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - Soon afterward King Sennacherib received word that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia[fn] was leading an army to fight against him. Before leaving to meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah in Jerusalem with this message:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - “This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. Don’t let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you with promises that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:14 - After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the LORD’s Temple and spread it out before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:15 - And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:20 - Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer about King Sennacherib of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: “This is what the LORD says: Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:3 - “Remember, O LORD, how I have always been faithful to you and have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you.” Then he broke down and wept bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - “Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you, and three days from now you will get out of bed and go to the Temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:8 - Meanwhile, Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What sign will the LORD give to prove that he will heal me and that I will go to the Temple of the LORD three days from now?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - “The shadow always moves forward,” Hezekiah replied, “so that would be easy. Make it go ten steps backward instead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - Soon after this, Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah his best wishes and a gift, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been very sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:13 - Hezekiah received the Babylonian envoys and showed them everything in his treasure-houses—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the aromatic oils. He also took them to see his armory and showed them everything in his royal treasuries! There was nothing in his palace or kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:15 - “What did they see in your palace?” Isaiah asked.
“They saw everything,” Hezekiah replied. “I showed them everything I own—all my royal treasuries.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:16 - Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to this message from the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:19 - Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “This message you have given me from the LORD is good.” For the king was thinking, “At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 - The rest of the events in Hezekiah’s reign, including the extent of his power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel[fn] to bring water into the city, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:21 - Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh became the next king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - He rebuilt the pagan shrines his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. He constructed altars for Baal and set up an Asherah pole, just as King Ahab of Israel had done. He also bowed before all the powers of the heavens and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:23 - The sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam—three in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - But during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah, these leaders of Simeon invaded the region and completely destroyed[fn] the homes of the descendants of Ham and of the Meunites. No trace of them remains today. They killed everyone who lived there and took the land for themselves, because they wanted its good pastureland for their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:27 - When Ahaz died, he was buried in Jerusalem but not in the royal cemetery of the kings of Judah. Then his son Hezekiah became the next king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:1 - Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:18 - Then the Levites went to King Hezekiah and gave him this report: “We have cleansed the entire Temple of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table of the Bread of the Presence with all its utensils.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:20 - Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went to the Temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:27 - Then Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be placed on the altar. As the burnt offering was presented, songs of praise to the LORD were begun, accompanied by the trumpets and other instruments of David, the former king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:30 - King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the psalms written by David and by Asaph the seer. So they offered joyous praise and bowed down in worship.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:31 - Then Hezekiah declared, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, bring your sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings to the Temple of the LORD.” So the people brought their sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings, too.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:36 - And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of what God had done for the people, for everything had been accomplished so quickly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1 - King Hezekiah now sent word to all Israel and Judah, and he wrote letters of invitation to the people of Ephraim and Manasseh. He asked everyone to come to the Temple of the LORD at Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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