Person

Jeconiah

Yekhonyah

יְכָנְיָה

Yahweh will establish. Also Coniah; Jehoiachin.

aka: Coniah, Jehoiachin

Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) is taken to Babylon. Jeremiah speaks judgment on Coniah, yet Matthew still traces the legal line of Christ through him to Shealtiel and Zerubbabel.

View Line of Christ

Matthew and Luke both frame a genealogy around Joseph, yet the names differ after David (Solomon in Matthew, Nathan in Luke). Scripture does not explain the difference. Common theories: (1) Matthew gives the legal/royal line and Luke another kinship line (blood, adoption, or levirate), both tied to Joseph; (2) one list is Joseph’s and Luke’s is Mary’s, with Joseph named because Yahshua was “as was supposed” his son (Luke 3:23)—a reading Luke never states outright; (3) both are Joseph’s by different reckonings (for example legal father and biological father). The chains below follow each Gospel as written.

Line of Christ (Matthew)

From Adam to Yahshua. Genesis carries the line to Abraham; Matthew’s genealogy carries it from Abraham to Yahshua through David and Solomon, ending at Joseph the husband of Mary.

Line of Christ (Luke)

Luke 3:23–38 as written: from Yahshua, “the son (as was supposed) of Joseph,” back through Heli and Nathan son of David to Adam. The names after David differ from Matthew.

Strong’s

Strong’s dictionaries compiled by Open Scriptures, used under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

יְכׇנְיָה H3204

Yᵉkonyâh · yek-on-yaw'

Jekonjah, a Jewish king

and יְכׇנְיָהוּ; or (Jeremiah 27:20) יְכוֹנְיָה; from H3559 (כּוּן) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah will establish;

KJV glosses: Jeconiah. Compare H3659 (כׇּנְיָהוּ).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

יְהוֺיָכִין H3078 · H3112 · H3204 · H3659

Biblical Hebrew

יְהוֺיָכִין, יְהוֺיָכִן, יוֺיָכִין proper name, masculine (׳י apointeth) last king but one of Judah, son of Jehoiakim (ᵐ5 Ἰωακειμ; in Kings, ᵐ5L Ἰωακειν; ᵐ5 in Jeremiah (usually) & Chronicles Ἰεχονίας); יְהוֺיָכִין 2Kgs 24:6; 2Kgs 24:8; 2Kgs 24:12; 2Kgs 24:15; 2Kgs 25:27 (twice in verse); 2Chr 36:8; 2Chr 36:9; Jer 52:31 = יְהוֺיָכִן vJer 52:31 = יוֺיָכִין Ezek 1:2 = יְכוֺנְיָה Jer 27:20 = יְכָנְיָה Jer 28:4; Jer 29:2; 1Chr 3:16; 1Chr 3:17; Esth 2:6 = יְכָנְיָהוּ Jer 24:1 = כָּנְיָהוּ Jer 22:24; Jer 22:28; Jer 37:1.

יְכוֺנְיָה H3204