Hebrew word · H3089

יְהוֹשֶׁבַע

yehosheva'

Jehosheba

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A woman of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.11.2;

daughter of: Jehoram (H3088) and Athaliah (H6271);

sister of: Ahaziah (H0274H); married to Jehoiada (H3077H); also called Jehoshabeath at 2Ch.22.11;

Also named: ye.ho.shav.at (יְהוֹשַׁבְעַת "Jehoshabeath" H3090)

§ Jehosheba = "Jehovah has sworn"

1) daughter of king Joram of Judah and wife of the high priest Jehoiada

1a) alternate spelling 'Jehoshabeath' - ye.ho.shav.at (יְהוֹשַׁבְעַת "Jehoshabeath" H3090)

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 · 1

  1. 2 Kings 11:2 יְהוֹשֶׁ֣בַע Jehosheba

    But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

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