יְהוֹיָכִיןYᵉhôwyâkîyn
proper name, masculine: last king but one of Judah, son of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:6; 2 Kings 24:8; 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15; 2 Kings 25:27)
Pronunciation: yeh-ho-yaw-keen' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3078
Same root
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh · H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- כּוּןkûwn · H3559properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
- יוֹיָכִיןYôwyâkîyn · H3112Jojakin, an Israelite king
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 24:6 When Jehoiakim died, his son Jehoiachin became the next king.
- 2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 24:12 Then King Jehoiachin, along with the queen mother, his advisers, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
- 2 Kings 24:15 Nebuchadnezzar led King Jehoiachin away as a captive to Babylon, along with the queen mother, his wives and officials, and all Jerusalem’s elite.
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 36:8 The rest of the events in Jehoiakim’s reign, including all the evil things he did and everything found against him, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. Then his son Jehoiachin became the next 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).