Athaliah

[ ath-uh-lahy-uh ]

noun

1. (in the Bible) a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and usurper of the throne of Judah, reigned 842–837 b.c.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Athaliah¹

From Hebrew ʿăthalyāh, perhaps “God is exalted”

Example Sentences

But meanwhile the mother of the murdered Ahaziah, Athaliah, heard in Judah of the death of her son in Israel, and seized the reins of government there.

From Project Gutenberg

Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab of Israel and Jezebel of Tyre; like her mother, she is said to have favoured the worship of Baal.

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Athaliah hastened with the cry of treason into the temple.

From Project Gutenberg

The same augmentation must be made in the corresponding reign of Asa of Judah, or, rather, as the chronology of Judah from Rehoboam to Athaliah gives three years less than that from Jeroboam to Jehu, 15 years must be added to Asa instead of 12, so that his reign reaches 41 + 15 = 56, and Omri's reign 12 + 12 = 24 years.

From Project Gutenberg

For the changes which we must in consequence of this assumption establish in the data of the reigns from Jeroboam and Rehoboam down to Athaliah and Jehu, i. e. in the period from 953 B.C. to 843 B.C., see below.

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