Bible Names

Azaliah: meaning of the name

Azaliah means “near the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Azaliah in Hebrew and Greek

אֲצַלְיָהוּ H683

ʼĂtsalyâhûw (ats-al-yaw'-hoo) — Atsaljah, an Israelite

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Who named Azaliah in the Bible

Azaliah in Scripture

“Azaliah” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 22:3

    And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,

  • 2 Chronicles 34:8

    Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.