Bible Names

Zedekiah: meaning of the name

Zedekiah means “the Lord is my justice; the justice of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Zedekiah in Hebrew and Greek

צִדְקִיָּה H6667

Tsidqîyâh (tsid-kee-yaw') — Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites

or צִדְקִיָּהוּ; from H6664 (צֶדֶק) and H3050 (יָהּ); right of Jah;

People named Zedekiah in the Bible

Zedekiah in Scripture

“Zedekiah” appears in 61 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 22:11

    And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.

  • 1 Kings 22:24

    But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?

  • 2 Kings 24:17

    And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

  • 2 Kings 24:18

    Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

  • 2 Kings 24:20

    For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

  • 2 Kings 25:2

    And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

  • 2 Kings 25:7

    And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:15

    And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.