אֶלְיָקִיםʼElyâqîym

proper name, masculine: God sets up

Pronunciation: el-yaw-keem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H471

Meanings

a. Hezekiah's prefect of the palace (2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:26; 2 Kings 18:37)

b. son of Josiah, made king by Pharaoh (2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:4; 2 Kings 24:1)

c. a priest (Nehemiah 12:41)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 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 19:2 And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, all dressed in burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
  • 2 Kings 23:34 Pharaoh Neco then installed Eliakim, another of Josiah’s sons, to reign in place of his father, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Jehoahaz was taken to Egypt as a prisoner, where he died.
  • 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.
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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).