רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ
re.mal.ya.hu
“Remaliah”
Definition
Remaljah, an Israelite
from an unused root and H3050 (יָהּ) (perhaps meaning to deck); Jah has bedecked;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Masculine)
N:N-M-P
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ appears 13 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
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.
In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.
In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.