Peqach פֶּ֫קַח

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Peqach
פֶּ֫קַח
Transliterationpeqach
Strong's numberH6492
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossPekah
Occurrences11 in 11 verses
Most frequent in2 Kings (9)

Peqach (Hebrew פֶּ֫קַח, Strong's H6492) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Pekah”. It occurs 11 times.

Definition

A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.25;
son of: Remaliah (H7425)
§ Pekah = "opened"
son of Remaliah, originally a captain of king Pekahiah of Israel, murdered Pekahiah, usurped the throne and became the 18th king of the northern kingdom of Israel

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

Translated as

KJVpekah (11)
BSBpekah (10), he was accompanied by pekah (1)

Verses

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

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Isaiah

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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