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English
Etymology
From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (chizkiyá, “Hezekiah”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hezekiah
- (biblical) A king of Judah.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 29:1-2:Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
- A fictitious book of the Bible, often cited as a source of made-up quotations.
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