חִלְקִיָּהוּ
chil.qiy.yah
Hilkiah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredH2518L, or chil.qiy.yah, is a proper name of a person in the Hebrew language. The name appears twice in the Bible, indicating its relative importance in the text. The short definition simply identifies the name as Hilkiah. Upon inspecting the Hebrew characters, we see the name is composed of three parts: "chilq", "y", and "yah". The first part, "chilq", has a general meaning of "portion" or "share", while the second and third parts, "y" and "yah", are likely honorific suffixes. Combining these parts, the name could be interpreted as "my share is Yah" or "Yah's portion". Given its significance, chil.qiy.yah is likely an important figure in the biblical narrative, but its exact role remains unclear from this data. The repeated appearance of the name, despite being part of a relatively short list of occurrences in the Bible, suggests that Hilkiah's contributions or impact have been considered noteworthy by the authors or compilers of the text.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text