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Strong's #3077 - יְהוֹיָדָע
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- Jehoiada = "Jehovah knows"
- father of Benaiah, David´s mighty warrior
- leader of the priests who joined David at Hebron
- high priest at the time of Athaliah´s usurpation of the throne of Judah; hid Joash, the king´s son, for six years and eventually replaced him on the throne of Judah
- second priest, or sagan, to Seraiah the high priest
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1׳יְהוֺ; ᵐ5 usually Ἰωδαε, A sometimes Ἰωιαδαε ( 2 Samuel 23:30 + ), ᵐ5 L Ἰωαδ ( 2 Samuel 20:23 ὠαδδαι), father of Benaiah (David's time), in combination ׳בְּנָיָהוּ בֶּןיְֿהוֺ 2 Samuel 8:18; 2 Samuel 20:23; 2 Samuel 23:20,22; 1 Kings 1:8,26,32,36,38,44; 1 Kings 2:25,29,34,35,46; 1 Kings 4:4; 1 Chronicles 11:22,24; 1 Chronicles 18:17; 1 Chronicles 27:5; יְהוֺיָדָע בֶּןבְּֿנָיָהוּ 1 Chronicles 27:34 is probably erroneous inversion of the usual order; ׳יְהוֺ alone only 1 Chronicles 12:28 (where called הַנָּגִיד לְאַחֲרֹן).
2׳יְהוֺ, ᵐ5 usually Ἰωδαε A sometimes Ἰωιαδαε etc., (chief) priest at Jerusalem in time of Joash 2 Kings 11:4,9 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 11:15,17; 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 12:8; 2 Kings 12:10; 2 Chronicles 22:11; 23:1,8 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 23:9,11,14,16,18; 24:2,3,6,12,14 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 24:15; 24:17; 24:20; 24:22; 24:25; Jeremiah 29:26.
3יוֺיָדָע a builder at wall of Jerusalem, with Nehemiah , Nehemiah 3:6 (ᵐ5 Ἰοειαα, Ἰοειδα, Ἰωδαε etc.)
4׳יוֺ son of high priest Eliashib Nehemiah 12:10,11,22; Nehemiah 13:28 (ᵐ5 Ἰωδα, Ἰωαδαε, Ἰωιαδα).
יְהוֹיָדָע m. (“whom Jehovah cared for”), [Jehoiada], pr.n. of a priest who held great authority in the kingdom of Samaria [prop. in Judæa], 2 Kings 11:4 [also contr. יוֹיָדָע].