פֶּקַחPeqach

proper name, masculine: usurping king of Israel (2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 15:30; 2 Kings 15:31)

Pronunciation: peh'-kakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6492

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 15:25 Then Pekah son of Remaliah, the commander of Pekahiah’s army, conspired against him. With fifty men from Gilead, Pekah assassinated the king, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the palace at Samaria. And Pekah reigned in his place.
  • 2 Kings 15:27 Pekah son of Remaliah began to rule over Israel in the fifty-second year of King Uzziah’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria twenty years.
  • 2 Kings 15:29 During Pekah’s reign, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria attacked Israel again, and he captured the towns of Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor. He also conquered the regions of Gilead, Galilee, and all of Naphtali, and he took the people to Assyria as captives.
  • 2 Kings 15:30 Then Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah and assassinated him. He began to rule over Israel in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
  • 2 Kings 15:31 The rest of the events in Pekah’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
  • 2 Kings 15:32 Jotham son of Uzziah began to rule over Judah in the second year of King Pekah’s reign in Israel.
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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).