Senses
1. Jehu, king of Israel — Proper name Yehu (יֵהוּא), primarily the zealous king of Israel who overthrew the house of Ahab and destroyed Baal worship (2 Kings 9-10); also borne by a prophet (1 Chr 12:3) and others. The bare nominative and prepositional le- forms denote the same individual(s). Target languages are consistent: Spanish Jehú, Hindi येहू, Arabic يَاهُو, Korean 예후, Swahili Yehu — all rendering this proper name uniformly across grammatical cases. 58×
AR["يا-ياهو","ياهو","يَاهُو"]·ben["যেহূ","যেহূকে","যেহূর"]·DE["Jehu"]·EN["Jehu","Yehu"]·FR["Jéhu"]·heb["יהוא"]·HI["येहू","येहू-की"]·ID["-Yehu","Yehu"]·IT["Ieu","Yehu"]·jav["Yéhu"]·KO["예후","예후가","예후를","예후야","예후의"]·PT["Jeú","Yehu","Yehu'"]·RU["Йегу","Йеху"]·ES["Jehú","Jehú?","Yehu"]·SW["Yehu"]·TR["Yehu","Yehu'nun","Yehu'ya","Yehu'yu"]·urd["یاہو","یاہو-کی","یاہُو","یہوا","یہوا-نے","یہوا-کی"]
1 Kgs 16:1, 1 Kgs 16:7, 1 Kgs 16:12, 1 Kgs 19:16, 1 Kgs 19:17, 1 Kgs 19:17, 2 Kgs 9:2, 2 Kgs 9:5, 2 Kgs 9:11, 2 Kgs 9:13, 2 Kgs 9:14, 2 Kgs 9:15 (+38 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
יֵהוּא n.pr.m. (prob. contr. from יהוהוא = י׳ is He, cf. יֵשׁוּעַ and reff.; cuneif. Ia-u-a COT 1 K 16:23 2 K 9:2 (further SchrMBAW 1880, 277, SchrZA iii. 3 HptBAS i. 296, 329 Jäger ib. 468); cf. also אֱלִיהוּ)— 1. king of Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Omri (𝔊 Εἰου, A often Ἰηου, 𝔊L Ἰου) 1 K 19:16, 17(×2) 2 K 9:2 + 36 times 2 K 9 & 10 + 12:2; 13:1; 14:8; 15:12; 2 Ch 22:7, 8, 9; 25:17; Ho…