יוֹאָחָזYôwʼâchâz

proper name, masculine: hath grasped, Ia-u-—a-zi

Pronunciation: yo-aw-khawz' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3099

Meanings

1. king of Judah, son of Josiah (2 Kings 23:30; 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 23:34)

2. king of Israel, son of Jehu (2 Kings 10:35; 2 Kings 13:1; 2 Kings 13:4)

3. king of Judah, son of Jehoram of Judah (2 Chronicles 21:17; 2 Chronicles 25:23)

4. father of יוֺאָח Josiah's chronicler (2 Chronicles 34:8)

Same root

יְהוֹאָחָזYᵉhôwʼâchâz · H3059Jehoachaz, the name of three Israelites

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

2 Kings 14:1 Amaziah son of Joash began to rule over Judah in the second year of the reign of King Jehoash of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, after he had purified the land and the Temple, Josiah appointed Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of Jerusalem, and Joah son of Joahaz, the royal historian, to repair the Temple of the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
2 Chronicles 36:4 The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.

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).