אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְʼĔvîyl Mᵉrôdak
proper name, masculine: successor of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, B.C.
Pronunciation: ev-eel' mer-o-dak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H192
Meanings
562-60 (2 Kings 25:27; Jeremiah 52:31)
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.
- Jeremiah 52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on March 31 of that year.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).