Jehu

[ jee-hyoo or, often, -hoo ]

/ ˈdʒi hyu or, often, -hu /

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noun

a king of Israel noted for his furious chariot attacks. 2 Kings 9.

(lowercase) a fast driver.

(lowercase) the driver of a cab or coach.

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Origin of Jehu

First recorded in 1680–90 for defs. 2, 3; from Hebrew Yēhūʾ “Yah (God) is he,” i.e., “Yahweh is God”

Words nearby Jehu

Jehovah, Jehovah God, Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jehovist, Jehu, jejun-, jejunal, jejunal and ileal veins, jejunal artery, jejune

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How to use Jehu in a sentence

An awful trap to the amateur Jehu was that gap in those days; we realise it now far better than we did then.
Thirty Years in Australia|Ada Cambridge
Yes, cunning Jehu, so they might, with those interpolations and erasures that would confound and overcome a lawyer.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII.|Various
What wonder that little Jehu was crushed into nothingness, behind his own counter, under the eye of his own wife!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII.|Various
Sometimes a customer would die—a natural state of things, but a great event for Jehu.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII.|Various

It cost a smirk or smile; Jehu had hundreds at command, and the accident was amended.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Jehu

Jehu

/ (ˈdʒiːhjuː) /

noun

Old Testament the king of Israel (?842–?815 bc); the slayer of Jezebel (II Kings 9:11–30)

a fast driver, esp one who is reckless (from the phrase to drive like Jehu . II Kings 9:20)

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