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title: חִלְקִיָּה — Hillkiah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חִלְקִיָּה (2518), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: Hillkiah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חִלְקִיָּה

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«חִלְקִיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hillkiah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 15 times · **Key:** 2518 · **BDB:** חִלְקִיָּהוּ

### Glosses

Hilkiah (9); of.Hilkiah (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hillkiah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2518/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2518/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my portion is י׳) 𝔊 usually Χελκ(ε)ιας, Χελχιας;— father of Eliakim, Hezekiah’s officer, חלקיהו 2 K 18:18, 26; Is 22:20; 36:3, 22; חלקיה 2 K 18:37. high priest, Josiah’s time, חלקיהו 2 K 22:4, 8, 14; 23:4, 24; 2 Ch 34:9, 14, 15(×2), 18, 20, 22; חלקיה 2 K 22:8, 10, 12 1 Ch 5:39(×2) 9:11; 2 Ch 35:8; Ezr 7:1, cf. also Ne 11:11. חלקיהו father of Jerem. Je 1:1.—The foll. are all חלקיה: Levites: 1 Ch 6:30. 1 Ch 26:11. a priest, contemp. of Ezra Ne 4:8; 12:7, 21. father of Gemariah, an ambassador of Zedekiah to Nebuchadrezzar Je 29:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חִלְקִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2518/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 6:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.30/)

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בֶּן־חֲשַׁבְיָ֥ה בֶן־אֲמַצְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Hashabiah the.son of.Amaziah the.son of.Hilkiah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah;

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[Nehemiah 12:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.21/)

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לְחִלְקִיָּ֣ה חֲשַׁבְיָ֔ה לִֽידַֽעְיָ֖ה נְתַנְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* of Hilkiah Hashabiah of Jedaiah Nethanel

*JPS 1917:* of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

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