אָחָז H0271
Ahaz — king of Judah (c. 735-715 BCE), son of Jotham, father of Hezekiah, name meaning 'he has grasped'
Achaz is the personal name of the king of Judah who reigned during one of the most consequential periods in Israelite history. The name is an abbreviated form of Jehoahaz ('Yah has grasped'), though the theophoric element is dropped — perhaps pointedly, given this king's reputation. Ahaz appears 41 times, concentrated in 2 Kings 16, 2 Chronicles 28, and Isaiah 7. His defining moment is the Syro-Ephraimite crisis (c. 735 BCE), when he refused Isaiah's offer of a sign from God ('I will not test the LORD,' Isa 7:12) yet secretly appealed to Assyria's Tiglath-pileser III, introducing an Assyrian altar model into the Jerusalem temple (2 Kgs 16:10-16). The prophets Hosea and Micah also date their activity by his reign (Hos 1:1; Mic 1:1). The Assyrian annals confirm him as Ia-u-ha-zi.
Senses
1. Ahaz king of Judah — The proper masculine name Achaz ('he has grasped,' short for Jehoahaz), identifying the king of Judah who succeeded Jotham and fathered Hezekiah. All 41 occurrences refer to this individual, with a minor secondary reference to a Benjamite descendant of Jonathan (1 Chr 8:35-36; 9:42). The king's significance lies in the Syro-Ephraimite crisis and his fateful decision to seek Assyrian vassalage rather than trust the prophetic word (Isa 7:1-12; 2 Kgs 16:7-9). Greek Achaz, Spanish 'Acaz,' French 'Achaz' preserve the name uniformly. 41×
AR["آحاز", "آحَازَ", "آحَازُ"]·ben["আহস", "আহসের"]·DE["Achaz", "Ahas"]·EN["Achaz"]·FR["Achaz"]·heb["אחז"]·HI["आख़ाज़", "आखाज़", "आखाज़-की", "आहाज"]·ID["Ahas"]·IT["Achaz"]·jav["Ahas", "Ahaz", "Akhas"]·KO["아하스", "아하스-의", "아하스가", "아하스는", "아하스의"]·PT["Achaz"]·RU["Ахаз", "Ахаза"]·ES["Acaz", "Ajaz"]·SW["Ahazi", "ya-Ahazi", "za-Ahazi"]·TR["Ahaz", "Ahaz'ın"]·urd["آحز", "آحز-نے", "آحز-کا", "آحز-کی", "آخز"]
2 Kgs 15:38, 2 Kgs 16:1, 2 Kgs 16:2, 2 Kgs 16:5, 2 Kgs 16:7, 2 Kgs 16:8, 2 Kgs 16:10, 2 Kgs 16:10, 2 Kgs 16:11, 2 Kgs 16:11, 2 Kgs 16:15, 2 Kgs 16:16 (+29 more)
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
אָחָז n.pr.m. (he hath grasped, abbrev. for יהואחז (q.v.) cf. Assyrian Ia-u-ḫa-zi (i.e. Ahaz) COT on 2 K 16:8) 1. king of Judah, son of Jotham, father of Hezekiah 2 K 15:38; 16:1, 2, 5, 7, 8 + 13 times 2 K; Is 1:1; 7:1, 3, 10, 12; 14:28; 38:8; 1 Ch 3:13, 2 Ch 27:9 + 8 times 2 Ch; Ho 1:1 Mi 1:1. 2. son of Micah, & great-grandson of Jonathan 1 Ch 8:35, 36; 9:42 (+ 9:41 cf. 𝔊L 𝔙).