Midvash

עֲזַרְיָהʻĂzaryâh

עֲזַרְיָ֫הוּ: proper name, masculine: Azariah

Pronunciation: az-ar-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5838

Meanings

1. king of Judah (2 Kings 15:1; 2 Kings 15:6; 2 Kings 15:8)

2. officer of Solomon (1 Kings 4:5)

3. prophet (2 Chronicles 15:1)

4. sons of Jehoshaphat

a. id. (2 Chronicles 21:2)

5. priests

c. id. (1 Chronicles 5:39; 1 Chronicles 5:40; 1 Chronicles 9:11)

d. id. (Nehemiah 10:3)

6. Levites

7. a temple captain (2 Chronicles 23:1)

8. wall-builder (Nehemiah 3:23; Nehemiah 3:24)

9. one with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 7:7; Ezra 2:2)

11. Epharimite (2 Chronicles 28:12)

12. name in Judah

: proper name, masculine: comrade of Daniel (Daniel 1:6; Daniel 2:17; Daniel 2:49)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 48 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 4:2 and these were his high officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.
  • 1 Kings 4:5 Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the district governors. Zabud son of Nathan, a priest, was a trusted adviser to the king.
  • 2 Kings 14:21 All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah’s sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.
  • 2 Kings 15:1 Uzziah son of Amaziah began to rule over Judah in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Jeroboam II of Israel.
  • 2 Kings 15:6 The rest of the events in Uzziah’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
  • 2 Kings 15:7 When Uzziah died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. And his son Jotham became the next king.
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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).