or Chizqiyahuw {khiz-kee-yaw'-hoo}; also Ychizqiyah {yekh-iz-kee-yaw'}; or Ychizqiyahuw {yekh-iz-kee-yaw'-hoo}; from
H2388 and
H3050; strengthened of Jah; Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites:--Hezekiah, Hizkiah, Hizkijah. Compare
H3169.
Hezekiah or Hizkiah or Hizkijah = "Jehovah is my strength"
- 12th king of Judah, son of Ahaz and Abijah; a good king in that he served Jehovah and did away with idolatrous practices
- great-great-grandfather of Zephaniah the prophet
- son of Neariah, a descendant of David
- head of a family of returning exiles in the time of Nehemiah
