Ahaziah

American  

[ey-uh-zahy-uh, ey-ha-] / ˌeɪ əˈzaɪ ə, ˌeɪ hæ- /

noun

Bible.

1. a son of Ahab and his successor as king of Israel, reigned 853?–852? b.c.

2. a king of Judah, 846? b.c.

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Etymology

Origin of Ahaziah

From Hebrew Aḥazyāh, Aḥazyāhū “God grasps (the hand)”

Example Sentences

And Joram turned his hands and fled, and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah."

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

Good interpreters do conjecture, though Joash be called the son of Ahaziah, that he was not his son by nature, but by succession to the crown.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

Twenty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Ahab.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

In terror Joram cried out, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah," and turned his horses to escape by flight.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max