עֲתַלְיָ֫הוּ
Athaliah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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 H6271 appears — 17 distinct verses across 4 books. 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 7 verses
- 2 Kings 8:26 עֲתַלְיָ֔הוּ n Proper Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 11:1 וַֽ/עֲתַלְיָה֙ conj + n Proper Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
- 2 Kings 11:2 עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ n Proper But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
- 2 Kings 11:3 וַ/עֲתַלְיָ֖ה conj + n Proper He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.
- 2 Kings 11:13 עֲתַלְיָ֔ה n Proper When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
- 2 Kings 11:14 עֲתַלְיָה֙ n Proper and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
- 2 Kings 11:20 עֲתַלְיָ֛הוּ n Proper So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 8 verses
- 2 Chronicles 22:2 עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ n Proper Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
- 2 Chronicles 22:10 וַ/עֲתַלְיָ֨הוּ֙ conj + n Proper Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ n Proper But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him.
- 2 Chronicles 22:12 וַ/עֲתַלְיָ֖ה conj + n Proper He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
- 2 Chronicles 23:12 עֲתַלְיָ֗הוּ n Proper When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
- 2 Chronicles 23:13 עֲתַלְיָ֨הוּ֙ n Proper and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
- 2 Chronicles 23:21 עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ n Proper So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
- 2 Chronicles 24:7 עֲתַלְיָ֨הוּ֙ n Proper For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.
Ezra 1 verse
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.
עתליה (ʻĂthalyâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Athaliah.” Debuting at 2 Kings 8:26, it then recurs through the corpus. With 17 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in 2 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 47% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6271 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 →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 8 verses 47%
- 2 Kings 7 verses 41%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 6%
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 17 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 59%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 41%
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: Athaliah 14×, Was athaliah 2×
- American Standard Version: Athaliah 13×, Now when athaliah 2×, Was athaliah 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Athaliah 15×, Was athaliah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Athaliah 14×, Was athaliah 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6271 across 17 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 H6271 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6271 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6271 across 18 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 5 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. f. Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, mother of Ahaziah king of Judah, Γοθολια: -יָתוּ 2 K 8:26; 11:2, 20 = 2 Ch 22:2, 10, 11; 23:12, 13, 21; 24:7; -יָה 2 K 11:1, 3, 13, 14; 2 Ch 22:12. e.g. 2 Kings 8:26
- 2. m.
- a. 1 Ch 8:26 Ογοθολια. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:26
- b. Ezr 8:7 Αθελει, A Αθλια; 𝔊L Γοθονίου (genit.). e.g. Ezra 8:7
- c. עַתְלָ֑י one with foreign wife Ezr 10:28, Θαλι, A Οθαλι. e.g. Ezra 10:28
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.f. et m. (? י׳ is exalted);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עתלי (ʻAthlay) (H6270) — Athlai.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H6271 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 22:2 | 4 |
| וַ/עֲתַלְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 22:12 | 2 |
| עֲתַלְיָ֨הוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 23:13 | 2 |
| וַ/עֲתַלְיָ֨הוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 22:10 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲתַלְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 8:26 | 1 |
| וַֽ/עֲתַלְיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 11:1 | 1 |
| עֲתַלְיָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:7 | 1 |
| עֲתַלְיָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 11:13 | 1 |
| עֲתַלְיָ֔הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:26 | 1 |
| עֲתַלְיָ֗הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 23:12 | 1 |
| עֲתַלְיָ֛הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 11:20 | 1 |
| עֲתַלְיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 11:14 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Athaliah). 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
Whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:18), who "walked in the ways of the house of Ahab" (2 Chr. 21:6), called "daughter" of Omri (2 Kings 8:26). On the death of her husband and of her son Ahaziah, she resolved to seat herself on the vacant throne. She slew all Ahaziah's children except Joash, the youngest (2 Kings 11:1, 2). After a reign of six years she was put to death in an insurrection (2 Kings 11:20; 2 Chr. 21:6; 22:10-12; 23:15), stirred up among the people in connection with Josiah's being crowned as king.
(2.) Ezra 8:7. (3.) 1 Chr. 8:26.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(afflicted of the Lord) daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, married Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and introduced into that kingdom the worship of Baal. (B.C. 891.) After the great revolution by which Jehu seated himself on the throne of Samaria she killed all the members of the royal family of Judah who had escaped his sword. (2 Kings 11:1) From the slaughter one infant, named Joash, the youngest son of Ahaziah, was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba wife of Jehoiada, (2 Chronicles 23:11) the high priest. (2 Chronicles 24:6) The child was brought up under Jehoiada's care, and concealed in the temple for six years, during which period Athaliah reigned over Judah. At length Jehoiada thought it time to produce the lawful king to the people, trusting to their zeal for the worship of God and their loyalty to the house of David. His plan was successful, and Athaliah was put to death.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the time of the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 17 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 17 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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