Bible Names

Athaliah: meaning of the name

Athaliah means “the time of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Athaliah in Hebrew and Greek

עֲתַלְיָה H6271

ʻĂthalyâh (ath-al-yaw') — Athaljah, the name of an Israelitess and two Israelites

or עֲתַלְיָהוּ; from the same as H6270 (עַתְלַי) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has constrained;

People named Athaliah in the Bible

Athaliah in Scripture

“Athaliah” appears in 17 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kings 11:1

    And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

  • 2 Kings 11:2

    But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

  • 2 Kings 11:3

    And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

  • 2 Kings 11:13

    And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.

  • 2 Kings 11:14

    And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

  • 2 Kings 11:20

    And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:26

    And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,