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Ἰεχονίας

Jehoiachin

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Jehoiachin’ fuller range ↓

G2423 Strong's Greek
Iechonías Transliteration
/ee-ekh-on-ee'-as/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

Ιεχονιας (Iechonías) is a Greek name most often rendered “Jehoiachin.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Debuting at Matthew 1:11, it then recurs through the corpus. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Jechonias
Modern gloss
Jehoiachin
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2423 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:11
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:11.
Matthew 1:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Matthew 1:12.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2 · 100%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Jechonias 2×
  • American Standard Version: Jechoniah 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Jeconiah 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jechoniah 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2423 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jechonias” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2423 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jechoniah” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2423 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jeconiah” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2423 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jechoniah” 2×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Jeconiah or Jehoiachin = "whom Jehovah establishes"
  2. was the son of Jehoiakim…

Word origin

Derived from יכניה (Yᵉkonyâh) (H3204) — Jeconiah.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Of hebrew origin [ H3204 ]; Jechonias (. e. Jekonjah ) an Israelite : - Jechonias.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G2423 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
Ἰεχονίαν Iechonían Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:11 1
Ἰεχονίας Iechonías Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:12 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2423, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jehoiachin). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Succeeded his father Jehoiakin (B.C. 599) when only eight years of age, and reigned for one hundred days (2 Chr. 36:9). He is also called Jeconiah (Jer. 24:1; 27:20, etc.), and Coniah (22:24; 37:1). He was succeeded by his uncle, Mattaniah = Zedekiah (q.v.). He was the last direct heir to the Jewish crown. He was carried captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, along with the flower of the nobility, all the leading men in Jerusalem, and a great body of the general population, some thirteen thousand in all (2 Kings 24:12-16; Jer. 52:28). After an imprisonment of thirty-seven years (Jer. 52:31, 33), he was liberated by Evil-merodach, and permitted to occupy a place in the king's household and sit at his table, receiving "every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life" (52:32-34).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(whom Jehovah has appointed), son of Jehoiakim, and for three months and ten days king of Judah. (B.C. 597.) At his accession Jerusalem was quite defenseless, and unable to offer any resistance to the army which Nebuchadnezzar sent to besiege it. (2 Kings 24:10,11) In a very short time Jehoiachin surrendered at discretion; and he, and the queen-mother, and all his servants, captains and officers, came out and gave themselves up to Nebuchadnezzar, who carried them, with the harem and the eunuchs, to Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:2; Ezekiel 17:12; 19:9) There he remained a prisoner, actually in prison and wearing prison garments, for thirty-six years, viz., till the death of Nebuchadnezzar, when Evilmerodach, succeeding to the throne of Babylon, brought him out of prison, and made him sit at this own table. The time of his death is uncertain.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

preparation, or strength, of the Lord

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word Ιεχονιας appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 4 books.

10
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
10
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
4 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2423) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

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