Bible Names

Amaziah: meaning of the name

Amaziah means “the strength of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Amaziah in Hebrew and Greek

אֲמַצְיָה H558

ʼĂmatsyâh (am-ats-yaw') — Amatsjah, the name of four Israelites

or אֲמַצְיָהוּ; from H553 (אָמַץ) and H3050 (יָהּ); strength of Jah;

People named Amaziah in the Bible

Amaziah in Scripture

“Amaziah” appears in 39 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 12:21

    For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 13:12

    And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kings 14:1

    In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

  • 2 Kings 14:8

    Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

  • 2 Kings 14:9

    And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

  • 2 Kings 14:11

    But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth–shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

  • 2 Kings 14:13

    And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth–shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

  • 2 Kings 14:15

    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?