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יְהוֹעַדָּן

Jehoaddan

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Jehoaddan’ fuller range ↓

H3086 Strong's Hebrew
Yᵉhôwʻaddîyn Transliteration
/yeh-ho-ad-deen'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 3 appearances

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About this entry

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“Jehoaddan” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יהועדין (Yᵉhôwʻaddîyn). A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in 2 Kings, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at 2 Kings 14:2, it enters the text early. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Jehoaddan
Modern gloss
Jehoaddan
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H3086 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

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

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
2 Kings 14:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in 2 Kings 14:2.
2 Chronicles 25:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 Chronicles 25:1.
#4,179
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 2 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%

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: Was jehoaddan 2×
  • American Standard Version: Was jehoaddan 1×, Was jehoaddin 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Was jehoaddan 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was jehoaddan 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3086 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Was jehoaddan” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3086 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Was jehoaddan” 1×
  • “Was jehoaddin” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3086 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Was jehoaddan” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3086 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Was jehoaddan” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB 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. Jehoaddan = "Jehovah delights"
  2. wife of king Joash and mother of king Amaziah of Judah

Word origin

n.pr.f. (? du. (cf. Kt 2 K 14:2) or f.pl. of יהועדה, (עדה as noun) Aramaic form; Klo 2 K 14:2 cf. עַד־אָנָה יהוה ψ 13:2; comp. Bab. n.pr. Aḫulapia, v. אַחְלָ֑י p. 29 supr.) mother of Amaziah, king of Judah 2 K 14:2 Qr (Kt יהועדין, 𝔊 Ἰωαδειμ, A Ἰωαδειν), 2 Ch 25:1 (𝔊 Ἰωναα, A Ἰωαδεν, 𝔊L Ἰωαδειν).

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from יהוה (Yᵉhôvâh) (H3068) — LORD.

Part of speech: Proper Name Feminine


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms H3086 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
יְהֽוֹעַדָּ֖ן Noun, Proper 2 Kings 14:2 1
יְהוֹעַדָּ֖ן Noun, Proper 2 Chronicles 25:1 1
יהועדין Noun, Proper 2 Kings 14:2 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3086, 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.

+11 more proper names from this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 37 — not the complete family. 36 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 (Jehoaddan). 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

Jehovah his ornament, the wife of King Jehoash, and mother of King Amaziah (2 Kings 14:2).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(Whom Jehovah adorns), queen to King Josiah, and mother of Amaziah of Judah. (2 Kings 14:2; 2 Chronicles 25:1) (B.C. 862-837.)

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

pleasure, or time, of the Lord

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


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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