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Strong's #273 - אַחְזַי

Transliteration

ʼAchzay

Phonetics

akh-zah'ee

Origin

from (H270)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Ahasai = “my holder, protector”

1) a post-exilic priest, in Jerusalem

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Nehemiah 1

NAS (1)

Nehemiah 1

HCS (1)

Nehemiah 1

BSB (1)

Nehemiah 1

ESV (1)

Nehemiah 1

WEB (1)

Nehemiah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ, אֲחַזְיָה, אַחְזַי

proper name, masculine ( Yah(u) hath grasped; ᵐ5 Ὀχοζ(ε)ιας 1 Kings 22:52 etc., compare Lag^{BN 53}) ** compare Arabic VIII, + = adopt, hence perhaps ׳י hath adopted.

1 king of Israel, son of Ahab 1 Kings 22:40,50,52; 2 Kings 1:18; 2 Chronicles 20:37 (אֲחַזְיָהוּ); + 2 Kings 1:2; 2 Chronicles 20:35 (אֲחַזְיָה).

2 king of Judah, son of Joram 2 Kings 8:24,25; 2 Kings 9:21; 2 Kings 10:13; 2 Kings 11:1; 2 Kings 12:19; 2 Kings 13:1; 2 Kings 14:13; 1 Chronicles 3:11; 1 Chronicles 22:1 15t. 2 Kings , 1Chronicles (all אֲחַזְיָהוּ); 2 Kings 9:16,23,27,29; 2 Kings 11:2 (אֲחַזְיָה).

3אַחְזַי a priest Nehemiah 11:13 (for which יַחְזֵרָה 1 Chronicles 9:12 see Sm^{Listen, Tafel}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אַחְזַי [Ahasai], pr.n. of a man, Nehemiah 11:13, for which there is in 1 Chronicles 9:12 יַחְזֵרָה. Perhaps we should read in both places אֲחַזְיָה.

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List of Word Forms

אַחְזַ֥י אחזי ’aḥ·zay ’aḥzay achZai