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The meaning of Jozabad in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

joz'-a-bad (yozabhadh, "Yahweh has bestowed"):

(1) A Gederathite, and one of David's recruits at Ziklag (I Chronicles 12:4 (Hebrew 5)). He is named with the Benjamites, but possibly he was a native of the town Gedara in Southern Judah. See Curtis, Chronicles, 196.

(2), (3) Two Manassite captains who joined David at Ziklag (I Chronicles 12:20 (Hebrew 21)).

(4) A Levite overseer in Hezekiah's time (II Chronicles 31:13); may be the ancestor of the chief of the priests in II Chronicles 35:9 = "Joram" of 1 Esdras 1:9.

(5) A Levite (Ezra 8:33), mentioned again probably in Ezra 10:23; Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 11:16. The name in 1 Esdras 8:63 ( = Ezra 8:33) is "Josabdus" (the King James Version "Josabad").

(6) A priest who had married a foreign wife Ezra 10:22) = "Ocidelus" of 1 Esdras 9:22.


See more on the meaning of Jozabad in the Bible:
Jozabad {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Jozabad {Hitchcock's Bible Name}

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