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אֲצַלְיָ֫הוּ

Azaliah

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Azaliah’ fuller range ↓

H683 Strong's Hebrew
ʼĂtsalyâhûw Transliteration
/ats-al-yaw'-hoo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 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.

The Hebrew name אצליהו centers on the idea of “Azaliah.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to 2 Kings (50%), then 2 Chronicles. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Kings 22:3. For the data behind this summary, explore 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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

Strong's H683 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 22:3
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in 2 Kings 22:3.
2 Chronicles 34:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 Chronicles 34:8.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 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: Azaliah 2×
  • American Standard Version: Azaliah 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Azaliah 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Azaliah 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H683 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Azaliah” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H683 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Azaliah” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H683 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Azaliah” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H683 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Azaliah” 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. Azaliah = "Jehovah (Yahweh) has reserved (set apart)"
  2. the father of Shaphan the scribe

Word origin

n.pr.m. (Yahweh hath reserved, or set apart) father of Shaphan the scribe 2 K 22:3 2 Ch 34:8.

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

Derived from אצל (ʼâtsal) (H680) — to withhold.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H683 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
אֲצַלְיָ֜הוּ Noun, Proper 2 Chronicles 34:8 1
אֲצַלְיָ֤הוּ Noun, Proper 2 Kings 22:3 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H683, 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

Shares the same root

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 → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

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

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(whom the Lord reserved), the father of Shaphan the scribe in the reign of Josiah. (2 Kings 22:3; 2 Chronicles 34:8) (B.C. before 641.)

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

near 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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Reading settings

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