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יְהוֹיָדָע

Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ · H3077 · Hebrew · proper noun · 51 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 people

Meanings

  1. Jehoiada

    A man who was the father of Benaiah, a warrior who later became army commander of Solomon

    Examples

    2 Samuel 8:18 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.

    2 Samuel 20:23 Now Joab was in command of the entire army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

    2 Samuel 23:20 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done great deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

  2. Jehoiada

    A man of the tribe of Levi who was a priest in the time of Queen Athaliah and King Joash of Judah

    Examples

    2 Kings 11:4 Now in the seventh year Jehoiada sent orders and brought the captains of hundreds of the Carites and of the guards, and brought them to himself at the house of the LORD. Then he made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the house of the LORD, and showed them the king’s son.

    2 Kings 11:9 So the captains of hundreds acted in accordance with everything that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, along with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest.

    2 Kings 11:15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her, put to death with the sword!” For the priest said, “She is not to be put to death at the house of the LORD.”

  3. Jehoiada

    A man of the tribe of Levi who was a priest in the time of the prophet Jeremiah

    Examples

    Jeremiah 29:26 “The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer of the house of the LORD for every insane person who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

19 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

18 occurrences in 14 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

27 occurrences in 5 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
יוֹיָדָע Yôwyâdâʻ · H3111 · Jehoiada
יוֹיָדָע (Yôwyâdâʻ, H3111) יוֹיָדָע is a variant spelling of the same name as יְהוֹיָדָע (Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ, H3077) יְהוֹיָדָע (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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יְהוֹיָדָע is the proper name Jehoiada, most notably the high priest who preserved young Joash and orchestrated Athaliah's overthrow (2 Kings 11), illustrated first at 2 Samuel 8:18 as the father of Benaiah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3077. Yehoyada יוֺיָדָע יְהוֺיָדָע, proper name, masculine (׳י knoweth; compare…
H3077. Yehoyada
יוֺיָדָע יְהוֺיָדָע, proper name, masculine (׳י knoweth; compare אֶלְיָדָע יְדַעְיָה, & references, בְּעֶלְיָדָע) —
1 ׳יְהוֺ; ᵐ5 usually Ἰωδαε, A sometimes Ἰωιαδαε (2Sa 23:30 + ), ᵐ5L Ἰωαδ (2Sa 20:23 ὠαδδαι), father of Benaiah (David's time), in combination בֶּןיְֿהוֺ ׳בְּנָיָהוּ 2Sa 8:18; 2Sa 20:23; 2Sa 23:20, 2Sa 23:22; 1Ki 1:8, 1Ki 1:26, 1Ki 1:32, 1Ki 1:36, 1Ki 1:38, 1Ki 1:44; 1Ki 2:25, 1Ki 2:29, 1Ki 2:34, 1Ki 2:35, 1Ki 2:46; 1Ki 4:4; 1Ch 11:22, 1Ch 11:24; 1Ch 18:17; 1Ch 27:5; בֶּןבְּֿנָיָהוּ יְהוֺיָדָע 1Ch 27:34 is probably erroneous inversion of the usual order; ׳יְהוֺ alone only 1Ch 12:28 (where called לְאַחֲרֹן הַנָּגִיד).
2 ᵐ5 ׳יְהוֺ, usually Ἰωδαε A sometimes Ἰωιαδαε etc., (chief) priest at Jerusalem in time of Joash 2Ki 11:4, 2Ki 11:9 (twice in verse); 2Ki 11:15, 2Ki 11:17; 2Ki 12:3; 2Ki 12:8; 2Ki 12:10; 2Ch 22:11; 2Ch 23:1, 2Ch 23:8 (twice in verse); 2Ch 23:9, 2Ch 23:11, 2Ch 23:14, 2Ch 23:16, 2Ch 23:18; 2Ch 24:2-3, 2Ch 24:6, 2Ch 24:12, 2Ch 24:14 (twice in verse); 2Ch 24:15; 2Ch 24:17; 2Ch 24:20; 2Ch 24:22; 2Ch 24:25; Jer 29:26.
3 יוֺיָדָע a builder at wall of Jerusalem, with Nehemiah, Neh 3:6 (ᵐ5 Ἰοειαα, Ἰοειδα, Ἰωδαε etc.)
4 ׳יוֺ son of high priest Eliashib Neh 12:10-11, Neh 12:22; Neh 13:28 (ᵐ5 Ἰωδα, Ἰωαδαε, Ἰωιαδα).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People51 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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