Bible Names

Jehoahaz: meaning of the name

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

Jehoahaz in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹאָחָז H3099

Yôwʼâchâz (yo-aw-khawz') — Joachaz, the name of two Israelites

a form of H3059 (יְהוֹאָחָז);

People named Jehoahaz in the Bible

Jehoahaz in Scripture

“Jehoahaz” appears in 22 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 10:35

    And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 13:1

    In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

  • 2 Kings 13:4

    And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

  • 2 Kings 13:7

    Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

  • 2 Kings 13:8

    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kings 13:9

    And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 13:10

    In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

  • 2 Kings 13:22

    But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.