Jehoiachin
יְהוֹיָכִיןStrong’s H3078yehoyakhin (ye-ho-ya-khin)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yehoyakhin is the Hebrew word usually translated “jehoiachin”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.”
Meaning
- A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.24.6
How it's translated
- jehoiachin 10
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 5
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 24:12And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
- 2 Kings 24:15And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:27And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
- 2 Chronicles 36:8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
- 2 Chronicles 36:9Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
יְהוֹיָכִין yehoyakhin · Jehoiachin
A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.24.6; son of: Jehoiakim (H3079) and Nehushta (H5179); father of: Zedekiah (H6667I)(?) and Shealtiel (H7597A); also called Jeconiah at 1Ch.3.16,17; 2x27.20; 28.4; 29.2; Coniah at Jer.22.24,28; 37.1; Shallum at Jer.22.11; Jechoniah (KJV: Jechonias; NIV: Jeconiah) inMat.1.11; 1x § Jehoiachin = "Jehovah establishes" …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.