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Strong's #3129: Yownathan (pronounced yo-naw-thawn')

a form of 3083; Jonathan, the name of ten Israelites:--Jonathan.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yônâthân

Jonathan or Jehonathan = "Jehovah has given"

1) a son of king Saul and a friend of David

2) a son of the high priest Abiathar and the last descendant of Eli of whom we hear

3) one of David' s mighty warriors

4) a Levite and father of Zechariah, a priest who blew the trumpet at the dedication of the wall

5) a son of Kareah and a brother of Johanan; a Judaite captain after the fall of Jerusalem

6) another Judaite

7) father of Ebed in the time of Ezra

8) son of Asahel in the time of Ezra

9) a priest of the family of Melicu in the time of Nehemiah

10) son of Joiada and his successor to the high priesthood in the time of Nehemiah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: a form of H3083



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

2 Samuel 9:1: "of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
1 Kings 1:42: "And while he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came:"
1 Kings 1:43: " And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David"
1 Chronicles 10:2: "and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul."
1 Chronicles 11:34: "The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,"
Nehemiah 12:11: "And Joiada begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua."
Nehemiah 12:11: "begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua."
Nehemiah 12:14: "Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;"
Nehemiah 12:35: "And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah,"
Jeremiah 38:26: "the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's to die there."
Jeremiah 40:8: "the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons and Seraiah the son"









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