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Strong's #3083: Yhownathan (pronounced yeh-ho-naw-thawn')

from 3068 and 5414; Jehovah-given; Jehonathan, the name of four Israelites:--Jonathan. Compare 3129.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yehônâthân

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) a nephew of David who like David slew a giant of Gath

4) an uncle of David

5) one of David' s mighty warriors

6) one of David' s treasurers

7) a scribe in the time of Jeremiah

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

9) a son or descendant of Gershom, the son of Moses, and a priest to the tribe of Dan

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

11) another Judaite father of Peleth

12) father of Ebed in the time of Ezra

13) son of Asahel in the time of Ezra

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

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

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H3068 and H5414



Usage:

This word is used 111 times:

1 Chronicles 9:39: "and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal."
1 Chronicles 9:40: "And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begot Micah."
1 Chronicles 20:7: "But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son David's brother"
1 Chronicles 27:25: "in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:"
1 Chronicles 27:32: " Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counselor, a wise and a scribe: and Jehiel"
2 Chronicles 17:8: "and Zebadiah, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites;"
Ezra 8:6: "Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, him fifty males."
Ezra 10:15: "Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah of Tikvah were employed"
Nehemiah 12:18: "Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;"
Jeremiah 37:15: "him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made"
Jeremiah 37:20: "thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there."









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