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HebrewH6492Proper Noun (Masculine)

פֶּ֫קַח

pe.qach

11Occurrences
H6492Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Pekach, an Israelite king

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Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Remaliah (H7425) § Pekah = "opened" son of Remaliah, originally a captain of king Pekahiah of Israel, murdered Pekahiah, usurped the throne and became the 18th king of the northern kingdom of Israel

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

פֶּ֫קַח appears 11 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Kings
9
2 Chronicles
1
Isaiah
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 28:6BSB

For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2 Kings 15:27BSB

In the fifty-second year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty years.

2 Kings 15:30BSB

Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15:32BSB

In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.

2 Kings 16:1BSB

In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.