Bible Names

Pekahiah: meaning of the name

Pekahiah means “it is the Lord that opens.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Pekahiah in Hebrew and Greek

פְּקַחְיָה H6494

Pᵉqachyâh (pek-akh-yaw') — Pekachjah, an Israelite king

from H6491 (פָּקַח) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has observed;

Who named Pekahiah in the Bible

Pekahiah in Scripture

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

  • 2 Kings 15:22

    And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 15:23

    In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

  • 2 Kings 15:26

    And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.