Person
Jehu
Yehu
יֵהוּא
Yahweh is he. King who cut off Ahab’s house.
Related
Jehu is anointed to destroy Ahab’s house and Baal’s cult in Israel, though he keeps Jeroboam’s calves.
Strong’s
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יֵהוּא H3058
Yêhûwʼ · yay-hoo'
Jehu, the name of five Israelites
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.
יֵהוּא H3058
יֵהוּא proper name, masculine (probably contracted from יהוהוא = ׳י is He, compare יֵשׁוּעַ and references; cuneiform Ia-u-a COT 1Kgs 16:23; 2Kgs 9:2 (further SchrMBAW 1880, 277, ZA iii. 3 HptBAS i. 296, 329 Jägerib. 468); compare also אֱלִיהוּ) — 1. king of Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Omri (ᵐ5 Ειὀυ, A often Ἰηου, ᵐ5L Ἰου 1Kgs 19:16; 1Kgs 19:17 (twice in verse); 2Kgs 9:2 + 36 t. 2Kgs 9 & 10 + 2Kgs 12:2; 2Kgs 13:1; 2Kgs 14:8; 2Kgs 15:12; 2Chr 22:7; 2Chr 22:8; 2Chr 22:9; 2Chr 25:17; Hos 1:4.
2. prophet of Northern Israel in time of Baasha & Jehoshaphat (ᵐ5 Ειὀυ, A Ειἠου ᵐ5L Ἰου in Kings; ᵐ5 Ἰου, Ἰησου, A ᵐ5L Ἰηου in Chronicles) 1Kgs 16:1; 1Kgs 16:7; 1Kgs 16:12; 2Chr 19:2; 2Chr 20:34.
3. one of David's heroes 1Chr 12:3 (ᵐ5 Ἰηουλ, ᵐ5L Ἰηουδ).
4. a Judaite 1Chr 2:38 (twice in verse) (ᵐ5 Ἰηους, A ᵐ5L Ἰηου).
5. a Simeonite prince 1Chr 4:35 (ᵐ5 οὗτος i.e. (י)הוּא; A ᵐ5L Ἰηου).
יֵהוּא H3058
יֵהוּא proper name, masculine see below יהוה above.