This is the Greek rendering of the Hebrew name יְכׇנְיָה (Yekhonyah), referring to the king also known as Jehoiachin who reigned in Judah for only three months before being deported to Babylon in 597 BC. He appears twice in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus (Matt 1:11-12), marking the pivotal transition from the Davidic monarchy to the Babylonian captivity. Matthew strategically positions Jeconiah at the hinge of his three-fold genealogical structure, emphasizing both the rupture of exile and the continuity of messianic promise. The consistency across languages (Spanish Iechonías, French Jéchonias, German Jechonja) reflects the careful transliteration of this historically weighted proper name.