Tsidqîyâh — H6667

H6667 · Hebrew — צדקיה

Pronunciation: tsid-kee-yaw'

Other spellings: Tsidqîyâhûw צִדְקִיָּהוּ

Definition

masculine proper noun

Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites

  1. Zedekiah = "Jehovah is righteous"
  2. the last king of Judah renamed from 'Mattaniah' by Nebuchadnezzar; son of Josiah by wife Hamutal; placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar when he carried his nephew Jehoiakim in captivity
  3. false prophet at the court of king Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel
  4. son of Maaseiah, a false prophet in Babylon
  5. son of Hananiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of Jeremiah
  6. a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
  7. son of king Jehoiakim of Judah

Usually translated as

Zedekiah, Zidkijah

Origin

or Tsidqîyâhûw; from H6664 and H3050; right of Jah

Occurrences

Tsidqîyâh occurs 62 times in 61 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (5), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (4), Nehemiah (1), Jeremiah (47)

Strong's Lexicon — T