יוֹאָחָז
Joahaz
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3099 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings
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.
יואחז (Yôwʼâchâz) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Joahaz.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 4 verses. 2 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 3 of 4 verses. Scripture first uses it in 2 Kings 14:1. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3099 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 75%
- 2 Kings 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
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 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
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: Jehoahaz 3×
- American Standard Version: Joahaz 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jehoahaz 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Joahaz 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3099 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3099 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3099 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3099 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. יְהוֹאָחָז king of Judah, son of Josiah 2 K 23:30, 31, 34 2 Ch 36:1, = יוֹאָחָז v 2:4 (appar. = יוֹחָנָן 1 Ch 3:15). e.g. 2 Kings 23:30
- 2. יְהוֹאָחָז king of Isr., son of Jehu 2 K 10:35; 13:1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22, 25(×2); 14:8, 17 2 Ch 25:17, 25 = יוֹאָחָז 2 K 14:1. e.g. 2 Kings 10:35
- 3. יְהוֹאָחָז king of Judah, son of Jehoram of Judah 2 Ch 21:17; 25:23 = אֲחַזְיָהוּ (אֲחַזְיָה) 2, q.v. e.g. 2 Chronicles 21:17
- 4. יוֹאָחָז father of יוֹאָח Josiah’s chronicler 2 Ch 34:8. e.g. 2 Chronicles 34:8
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (י׳ hath grasped; 𝔊 Ἰωαχας, & Ἰωαχαζ; cf. also אֲחַזְיָהוּ, & cuneif. Ia-u-ḫa-zi for Ahaz, v. אָחָז, and cf. further JägerBAS i. 467 f.)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יהואחז (Yᵉhôwʼâchâz) (H3059) — Jehoahaz.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H3099 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יֽוֹאָחָז֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 34:8 | 1 |
| יוֹאָחָ֖ז | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 14:1 | 1 |
| יוֹאָחָ֣ז | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 36:2 | 1 |
| יוֹאָחָ֤ז | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 36:4 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Joahaz). 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
(2 Chr. 34:8), a contracted form of Jehoahaz (q.v.).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(whom Jehovah holds), the father of Joah, the chronicler or keeper of the records to King Josiah. (2 Chronicles 34:8) (B.C. before 623.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
apprehending; possessing; seeing
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
