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Hizkiah

Holman Bible Dictionary

(Hiz kyah) Personal name meaning, “Yah is my strength.” 1. Abbreviated form in Hebrew for Hezekiah and used as alternate spelling of the king's name (2 Kings 18:1; Proverbs 25:1 ). The ancestor of Zephaniah, the prophet, may have been the same king (Zephaniah 1:1 ). See Nehemiah 7:21; parallel passage Ezra 2:16 in Hebrew has another variant spelling—Jehizhykiah). Both Ater and Hizkijah appear, however, in the list of those who signed Nehemiah's covenant to obey God's law ( Nehemiah 10:17 ). This would apparently represent men of the next generation. 3. A descendant of David living after the return from Exile (1 Chronicles 3:23 ).