Pekah
פֶּ֫קַחStrong’s H6492peqach (pe-qach)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peqach is the Hebrew word usually translated “pekah”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.”
Meaning
- A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.25
How it's translated
- pekah 7
- of pekah 2
- and pekah 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 9
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 15:27In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
- 2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 15:30And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
- 2 Kings 15:31And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 15:32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
- 2 Kings 15:37In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫קַח peqach · Pekah
A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.25; son of: Remaliah (H7425) § Pekah = "opened" son of Remaliah, originally a captain of king Pekahiah of Israel, murdered Pekahiah, usurped the throne and became the 18th king of the northern kingdom of Israel
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.