חִלְקִיָּהChilqîyâh
proper name, masculine: my portion is
Pronunciation: khil-kee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2518
Meanings
1. father of Eliakim, Hezekiah's officer (2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:26; Isaiah 22:20)
2. high priest, Josiah's time (2 Kings 22:4; 2 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 22:14)
3. father of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:1)
4. Levites
5. a priest, contemporary of Ezra (Nehemiah 4:8; Nehemiah 12:7; Nehemiah 12:21)
6. father of Gemariah, an ambassador of Zedekiah to Nebuchadrezzar (Jeremiah 29:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 34 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 18:18 They summoned King Hezekiah, but the king sent these officials to meet with them: Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian.
- 2 Kings 18:26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Assyrian chief of staff, “Please speak to us in Aramaic, for we understand it well. Don’t speak in Hebrew, for the people on the wall will hear.”
- 2 Kings 18:37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian, went back to Hezekiah. They tore their clothes in despair, and they went in to see the king and told him what the Assyrian chief of staff had said.
- 2 Kings 22:4 “Go to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money the gatekeepers have collected from the people at the Lord’s Temple.
- 2 Kings 22:8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the court secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the Lord’s Temple!” Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan, and he read it.
- 2 Kings 22:10 Shaphan also told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” So Shaphan read it to the king.
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).