H3077: יְהוֹיָדָע
Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ · pronounced yeh-ho-yaw-daw' · “Jehoiada”
Definition
Jehojada, the name of three Israelites
KJV translates it as: Jehoiada. Compare H3111 (יוֹיָדָע).
Word origin: from H3068 (יְהֹוָה) and H3045 (יָדַע); Jehovah-known;
Extended definition
father of: Benaiah (H1141)
§ Jehoiada = "Jehovah knows"
1) father of Benaiah, David's mighty warrior
2) leader of the priests who joined David at Hebron
3) high priest at the time of Athaliah's usurpation of the throne of Judah; hid Joash, the king's son, for six years and eventually replaced him on the throne of Judah
4) second priest, or sagan, to Seraiah the high priest
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3077 is translated
- jehoiada ×51
Bible verses with H3077 (Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ)
Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ appears in 48 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- 2 Samuel 8:18
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.
- 2 Samuel 20:23
Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
- 2 Samuel 23:20
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
- 2 Samuel 23:22
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
- 1 Kings 1:8
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
- 1 Kings 1:26
But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
- 1 Kings 1:32
And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.
- 1 Kings 1:36
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.
- 1 Kings 1:38
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:44
And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
- 1 Kings 2:25
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
- 1 Kings 2:29
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
- 1 Kings 2:34
So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
- 1 Kings 2:35
And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- 1 Kings 2:46
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 4:4
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
- 2 Kings 11:4
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king’s son.
- 2 Kings 11:9
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
- 2 Kings 11:15
But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.
- 2 Kings 11:17
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; between the king also and the people.
- 2 Kings 12:2
And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
- 2 Kings 12:7
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
- 2 Kings 12:9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
- 1 Chronicles 11:22
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
- 1 Chronicles 11:24
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
All 48 references
- 1 Chronicles 12:27
- 1 Chronicles 18:17
- 1 Chronicles 27:5
- 1 Chronicles 27:34
- 2 Chronicles 22:11
- 2 Chronicles 23:1
- 2 Chronicles 23:8
- 2 Chronicles 23:9
- 2 Chronicles 23:11
- 2 Chronicles 23:14
- 2 Chronicles 23:16
- 2 Chronicles 23:18
- 2 Chronicles 24:2
- 2 Chronicles 24:3
- 2 Chronicles 24:6
- 2 Chronicles 24:12
- 2 Chronicles 24:14
- 2 Chronicles 24:15
- 2 Chronicles 24:17
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
- 2 Chronicles 24:22
- 2 Chronicles 24:25
- Jeremiah 29:26