Remaliah
רְמַלְיָ֜הוּStrong’s H7425remalyahu (re-mal-ya-hu)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Remalyahu is the Hebrew word usually translated “remaliah”. It appears in 13 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 man of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.25
How it's translated
- remaliah 13
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 7
- Isaiah 5
- 2 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
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 15:30And 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 15:32In 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.
- 2 Kings 16:1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 16:5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
Hebrew dictionary
רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ remalyahu · Remaliah
A man of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.25; father of: Pekah (H6492) § Remaliah = "protected by Jehovah" father of king Pekah 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.