Bible Names

Remaliah: meaning of the name

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

Remaliah in Hebrew and Greek

רְמַלְיָהוּ H7425

Rᵉmalyâhûw (rem-al-yaw'-hoo) — Remaljah, an Israelite

from an unused root and H3050 (יָהּ) (perhaps meaning to deck); Jah has bedecked;

Who named Remaliah in the Bible

Remaliah in Scripture

“Remaliah” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 15:25

    But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

  • 2 Kings 15:27

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

  • 2 Kings 15:30

    And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

  • 2 Kings 15:32

    In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

  • 2 Kings 15:37

    In those days the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

  • 2 Kings 16:1

    In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

  • 2 Kings 16:5

    Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6

    For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.