Bible Names

Joahaz: meaning of the name

Joahaz means “apprehending; possessing; seeing.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Joahaz in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹאָחָז H3099

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

a form of H3059 (יְהוֹאָחָז);

Who named Joahaz in the Bible

Joahaz in Scripture

“Joahaz” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 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.