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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יֵהוּא
יֵהוּא
H3058
Transliteration: Yêhûwʼ
Pronunciation: yay-hoo'
Definition: Jehu
Original: יהוּא Transliteration: yêhû' Phonetic: yay-hoo'
BDB Definition:
Jehu = "Jehovah is He"- the king of the northern kingdom Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Omri
- son of Hanani and an Israelite prophet in the time of Baasha and Jehoshaphat
- the Antothite, a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors
- a descendant of Judah of the house of Hezron
- son of Josibiah and a chief of the tribe of Simeon