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Jeconiah (Yekhonyah/Yekhanyahu), the penultimate king of Judah exiled to Babylon, also called Jehoiachin
Jeconiah is one of several names for the ill-fated king of Judah who reigned briefly before being deported to Babylon in 597 BCE. The spelling variants — Yekhonyah, Yekhanyahu, and the shortened Konyahu — all mean 'YHWH establishes,' though the name carries deep irony given the king's loss of throne and land. Jeremiah uses the diminutive Konyahu in his harshest oracle against this king (Jer 22:24, 28), while the fuller forms appear in the Chronicler's genealogy (1 Chr 3:16-17) and in Esther 2:6, linking Mordecai's lineage to this exiled monarch.
Senses
1. Jeconiah (proper name) — The proper name Yekhonyah/Yekhanyahu (יְכוֹנְיָה / יְכָנְיָהוּ), meaning 'YHWH establishes,' referring to king Jeconiah (= Jehoiachin), the penultimate king of Judah exiled by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE. The name appears in three orthographic variants across Jeremiah, Chronicles, and Esther (Jer 24:1; 27:20; 28:4; 29:2; 1 Chr 3:16-17; Esth 2:6). French and German leave the Hebrew unvocalized in their glosses, while Spanish renders 'Jeconias,' preserving the Septuagint's Iechonias. 7×
AR["يَكَنيا", "يَكُنْيَا", "يَكُونْيَا", "يَكُونْيَا-"]·ben["যিকনিয়", "যিকনিয়কে", "যিখনিয়", "যিখনিয়ের"]·DE["[יכוניה]", "[יכניה]", "[יכניהו]"]·EN["Yechonyah", "Yekhanyah", "Yekhanyah-", "Yekhanyahu", "Yekhonyah"]·FR["[יכוניה]", "[יכניה]", "[יכניהו]"]·heb["יכוניה", "יכניה", "יכניה-", "יכניהו"]·HI["यकन्याह", "यकन्याहू", "यकोन्याह"]·ID["Yekhonya", "Yekhonya-"]·IT["Ieconia", "[יכניה]"]·jav["Yekhonya", "Yékhanya", "Yékonya"]·KO["여고냐-", "여고냐는", "여고냐를", "여고냐의", "여고니야를", "여코냐"]·PT["Yekhonyah", "Yekhonyah-", "Yekhonyahu"]·RU["Иехонии", "Иехонии-", "Иехония", "Йехонией", "Йехонию"]·ES["Jeconías", "Yejanya", "Yekonyah", "Yekonyah-"]·SW["Yekonia", "mfalme"]·TR["Yekanya", "Yekanya'yı", "Yekonya", "Yekonya'nın", "Yekonyahu'nun-", "Yekonyahu'yu"]·urd["یکنیاہ", "یکنیہ"]
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
† יְכוֹנְיָה n.pr.m. (may Y. be enduring);—Je 27:20 = יְכָנְ֫יָהוּ 24:1 = יְכָנְיָה 28:4; 29:2 1 Ch 3:16, 17 Est 2:6 = כָּנְיָ֫הוּ Je 22:24, 28; 37:1 (𝔊 Ιεχονιας throughout), all of last king but one of Judah, v. יְהוֹיָכִין p. 220 supr.