Bible Names

Ahaziah: meaning of the name

Ahaziah means “seizure; vision of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ahaziah in Hebrew and Greek

אֲחַזְיָה H274

ʼĂchazyâh (akh-az-yaw') — Achazjah, the name of a Jewish and an Israelite king

or (prolonged) אֲחַזְיָהוּ ; from H270 (אָחַז) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has seized;

People named Ahaziah in the Bible

Ahaziah in Scripture

“Ahaziah” appears in 30 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 22:40

    So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Kings 22:49

    Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

  • 1 Kings 22:51

    Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

  • 2 Kings 1:2

    And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

  • 2 Kings 1:18

    Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kings 8:24

    And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 8:25

    In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

  • 2 Kings 8:26

    Two and twenty 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 king of Israel.