2 Chronicles 26:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 26:3 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    A son of 16 years was Uzziah when he became king. And 52 years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Jekoliah from Jerusalem.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Sixteene yeere olde was Vzziah, when he began to reigne, and he reigned two and fiftie yere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iecoliah of Ierusalem.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Ozias was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    A son of sixteen years `is' Uzziah in his reigning, and fifty and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother `is' Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Uzziah [is] a son of sixteen years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign. He reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    A son of 16 years was Uzziah when he became king. And 52 years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Jekoliah from Jerusalem.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Uzziah was sixteen when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jecoliah and she came from Jerusalem.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

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יכיליה
Yᵉkolyâh
H3203
“Jecoliah”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3201 and H3050

TWOT: None

Jecoliah or Jecholiah = "Jehovah is able" - wife of king Amaziah of Judah and mother of king Uzziah (Azariah)
  1. בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. שֵׁ֨שׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. שָׁנָה֙ shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  5. עֻזִּיָּ֣הוּ ʻUzzîyâh H5818 “Uzziah” Noun, Proper
  6. בְמָלְכ֔וֹ mâlak H4427 “in/at · to reign · him” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים chămishshîym H2572 “and · fifty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  8. וּשְׁתַּ֨יִם֙ shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Absolute
  9. שָׁנָ֔ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. מָלַ֖ךְ mâlak H4427 “to reign” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם Yᵉrûwshâlaim H3389 “in/at · Jerusalem” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  12. וְשֵׁ֣ם shêm H8034 “and · name of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. אִמּ֔וֹ ʼêm H517 “mother · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  14. יְכָלְיָ֖ה Yᵉkolyâh H3203 “Jecoliah” Noun, Proper
  15. מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
  16. יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם Yᵉrûwshâlaim H3389 “Jerusalem” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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17
words
13
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יכיליה Jecoliah H3203 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יכיליה Jecoliah H3203 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 10 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • בְמָלְכ֔וֹ Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • מָלַ֖ךְ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • שָׁנָה֙ year H8141 ×2
  • בְמָלְכ֔וֹ to reign H4427 ×2
  • בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם Jerusalem H3389 ×2
  • יכיליה Jecoliah H3203 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 17 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 26:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 2 Kings 15:2–3 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
  • Isaiah 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.
  • Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
  • Hosea 1:1 The word of Yahweh 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.
  • Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
  • Zechariah 14:5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 26:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן שֵׁ֨שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ עֻזִּיָּ֣הוּ בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים וּשְׁתַּ֨יִם֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ יכיליה יְכָלְיָ֖ה מִן יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם

Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 26:3 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός δέκα ἕξ ἔτος βασιλεύω οζιας καί πεντήκοντα καί δύο ἔτος βασιλεύω ἐν ἰερουσαλήμ καί ὄνομα ὁ μήτηρ αὐτός χαλια ἀπό ἰερουσαλήμ

Ozias began to reign at the age of sixteen years, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechelia of Jerusalem.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:3 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 26:3 Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

Ver. 3. Sixteen years old.] See 2Ki 15:2.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

26:3 The fifty-two years of Uzziah’s reign (792–740 BC) included a long co-regency with his father, Amaziah (from 792 to 767 BC), and a co-regency with his son Jotham (from 750 to 740 BC).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. Jecoliah] R.V. Jechiliah (so C’thib; A.V. follows the Ḳ’ri and the parallel passage of Kings.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Jecoliah. This name is spelt Jecholiah in the parallel. The character, however, is kappa in both texts. The meaning of the name is, "Made strong of Jehovah." Another unreliable form of the name is Jekiliah, the result probably of a mere clerical error.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 17 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉkolyâh (“Jecoliah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Jecoliah” (Yᵉkolyâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does 2 Kings 15:2, which shares the word «Jecoliah», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “year” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «בְמָלְכ֔וֹ» is a Qal Infinitive Construct verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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