רְמַלְיָהוּRᵉmalyâhûw

proper name, masculine: father of Pekah, king of Israrel (2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 15:30; 2 Kings 15:32; 2 Kings 15:37)

Pronunciation: rem-al-yaw'-hoo · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7425

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Appears 13 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 15:30 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 15:32 Jotham son of Uzziah began to rule over Judah in the second year of King Pekah’s reign in Israel.
  • 2 Kings 15:37 In those days the Lord began to send King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah of Israel to attack Judah.
  • 2 Kings 16:1 Ahaz son of Jotham began to rule over Judah in the seventeenth 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).