Hebrew word · H2537

חֲמוּטַל

chamital

Hamutal

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A woman living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.23.31;

daughter of: Jeremiah (H3414); married to Josiah (H2977);

mother of: Jehoahaz (H3059H) and Zedekiah (H6667H)

§ Hamutal = "father-in-law is protection"

one of the wives of Josiah, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Similar words

Where it appears

2 Kings · 2
  1. 2 Kings 23:31 חֲמוּטַ֥ל [was] Hamutal

    Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

  2. 2 Kings 24:18 חֲמוּטַ֥ל [was] Hamutal

    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

Jeremiah · 1
  1. Jeremiah 52:1 חֲמוּטַ֥ל [was] Hamutal

    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.