Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ — H3077

Definition

masculine proper noun

Jehojada, the name of three Israelites

1. Jehoiada = "Jehovah knows"
2. father of Benaiah, David's mighty warrior
3. leader of the priests who joined David at Hebron
4. 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
5. second priest, or sagan, to Seraiah the high priest

Usually translated as

Jehoiada

Origin

from H3068 and H3045; Jehovah-known

• Derived from Yᵉhôvâh (H3068)
• Derived from Yâdaʻ (H3045)

Occurrences

Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ occurs 48 times in 44 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (4), 1 Kings (12), 2 Kings (7), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (18), Jeremiah (1)

• 2 Samuel 8:18 — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע) 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 (יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע) was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
• 2 Samuel 23:20 — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֧ע), 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֑ע), and had the name among three mighty men.
• 1 Kings 1:8 — But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֜ע), 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֛ע), 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֑ע). And they came before the king.
• 1 Kings 1:36 — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (יְהֽוֹיָדָ֛ע) 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֗ע), 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 (יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע), 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֑ע); 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֛ע), saying, Go, fall upon him.
• 1 Kings 2:34 — So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע) 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֛ע) 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 (יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע); 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע) was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
• 2 Kings 11:4 — And the seventh year Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֜ע) 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע) 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 11:9 — 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֥ע) the priest.
• 2 Kings 11:15 — But Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֨ע) 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֜ע) 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע) the priest instructed him.
• 2 Kings 12:7 — Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada (לִיהוֹיָדָ֤ע) 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 (יְהוֹיָדָ֤ע) 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 27:5 — The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֛ע), a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
• 1 Chronicles 27:34 — And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֤ע) the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king’s army was Joab.
• 2 Chronicles 22:11 — But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֨ע) the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
• 2 Chronicles 23:1 — And in the seventh year Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֗ע) strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
• 2 Chronicles 23:8 — So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע) the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
• 2 Chronicles 23:8 — So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֥ע) the priest dismissed not the courses.
• 2 Chronicles 23:9 — Moreover Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֨ע) the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of God.
• 2 Chronicles 23:11 — Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע) and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
• 2 Chronicles 23:14 — Then Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֨ע) the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 23:16 — And Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָע֙) made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
• 2 Chronicles 23:18 — Also Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֨ע) appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
• 2 Chronicles 24:2 — And Joash (יְהוֹיָדָ֥ע) did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
• 2 Chronicles 24:2 — And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֥ע) the priest.
• 2 Chronicles 24:3 — And Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע) took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
• 2 Chronicles 24:6 — And the king called for Jehoiada (לִֽיהוֹיָדָ֣ע) the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
• 2 Chronicles 24:12 — And the king and Jehoiada (וִֽיהוֹיָדָ֗ע) gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 24:14 — And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada (וִֽיהוֹיָדָ֜ע), whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
• 2 Chronicles 24:14 — And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָֽע).
• 2 Chronicles 24:15 — But Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֛ע) waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
• 2 Chronicles 24:17 — Now after the death of Jehoiada (יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע) came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
• 2 Chronicles 24:20 — And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע) the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
• 2 Chronicles 24:22 — Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֤ע) his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
• 2 Chronicles 24:25 — And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע) the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
• Jeremiah 29:26 — The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada (יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע) the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.