Chazael חֲזָהאֵל

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Chazael
חֲזָהאֵל
Transliterationchazael
Strong's numberH2371
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossHazael
Occurrences23 in 21 verses
Most frequent in2 Kings (16)

Chazael (Hebrew חֲזָהאֵל, Strong's H2371) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Hazael”. It occurs 23 times.

Definition

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.19.15;
father of: Ben-hadad (H1130I)
§ Hazael = "one who sees God"
a king of Syria; sent by his master, Ben-hadad, to the prophet Elisha, to seek a remedy for Ben-hadad's leprosy; apparently later killed Ben-hadad, assumed the throne, and soon became engaged in a war with the kings of Judah and Israel for the possession of the city of Ramoth-gilead

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVhazael (23)
BSBhazael (21), he (1), his (1)

Verses

Every verse with Chazael, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Amos

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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