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Definition of Ezekias
1. Noun. (Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
Category relationships: Old Testament
Generic synonyms: King, Male Monarch, Rex
Definition of Ezekias
1. Proper noun. (biblical character) King Hezekiah, in the New Testament form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ezekias
Literary usage of Ezekias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"... Scriptures that the godly King Ezekias caused it this should be the true
Serpent, because we read in the burne incense to it, and called it Nehushtan, ..."
2. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829)
"But the third of Hosea was the first of Ezekias; so it follows, that Ezekias
began to reign in his father's fourteenth year. Like enough it is, ..."
3. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"It was once more the family of Ezekias that headed the movement. ... Judas, the
son of Ezekias, took possession of the city of Sepphoris, and armed his ..."
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