Bible Names

Coniah: meaning of the name

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

Coniah in Hebrew and Greek

כׇּנְיָהוּ H3659

Konyâhûw (kon-yaw'-hoo) — Conjah, an Israelite king

for H3204 (יְכׇנְיָה);

Coniah in Scripture

“Coniah” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Jeremiah 22:24

    As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

  • Jeremiah 22:28

    Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

  • Jeremiah 37:1

    And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.