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יְהוֹנָתָן

Yᵉhôwnâthân · H3083 · Hebrew · proper noun · 82 occurrences

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This name belongs to 9 people

Meanings

  1. Jonathan

    A man who was a son of Gersom of the tribe of Levi, a Levite who assisted Micah and later the Danites as priest

    Examples

    Judges 18:30 The sons of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

  2. Jonathan

    A man who was a son of King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin and a friend of David

    Examples

    1 Samuel 14:6 Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come, and let’s cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men; perhaps the LORD will work for us, because the LORD is not limited to saving by many or by few!”

    1 Samuel 14:8 Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we are going to cross over to the men and reveal ourselves to them.

    1 Samuel 18:1 Now it came about, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that Jonathan committed himself to David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

  3. Jonathan

    A man who was a son of Abiathar of the tribe of Levi and who spied on Absalom for David together with Ahimaaz, son of Zadok

    Examples

    2 Samuel 15:27 The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, your son Ahimaaz and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

    2 Samuel 15:36 “Behold their two sons are there with them, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send me everything that you hear.”

    2 Samuel 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a female servant would go and inform them, and they would go and inform King David, for they could not allow themselves to be seen entering the city.

  4. Jonathan

    Man; son of Shimeah, brother of David; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    2 Samuel 21:21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck and killed him.

    1 Chronicles 20:7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

    1 Chronicles 27:32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni tutored the king’s sons.

  5. Jonathan

    A man who was a warrior in the time of David

    Examples

    2 Samuel 23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

  6. Jonathan

    A man who was a secretary in the time of Zedekiah, in whose house the prophet Jeremiah was locked up

    Examples

    Jeremiah 37:15 Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it into the prison.

    Jeremiah 37:20 “But now, please listen, my lord the king; please let my plea come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, so that I will not die there.”

    Jeremiah 38:26 then you are to say to them, ‘I was presenting my plea before the king, not to make me return to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

  7. Jonathan

    A man who was a son of Uzziah and an official in the time of David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 27:25 Now Azmaveth the son of Adiel was responsible for the king’s storehouses. And Jonathan the son of Uzziah was responsible for the storehouses in the country, the cities, the villages, and the towers.

  8. Jehonathan

    A man of the tribe of Levi who was a Levite in the time of King Jehoshaphat

    Examples

    2 Chronicles 17:8 and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

  9. Jonathan, Jehonathan

    Various men

    Examples

    Nehemiah 12:18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

26 occurrences in 5 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

39 occurrences in 20 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

6 occurrences in 7 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 5 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

17 occurrences in 10 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
יוֹנָתָן Yôwnâthân · H3129 · Jonathan
יוֹנָתָן (Yôwnâthân, H3129) יוֹנָתָן is a variant spelling of the same name as יְהוֹנָתָן (Yᵉhôwnâthân, H3083) יְהוֹנָתָן (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
יְהוֹנָתָן is the proper name Jonathan, most notably Saul's son and David's covenant friend (1 Samuel 18:1-4, 20).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3083. Yehonathan יוֺנָתָן יְהוֺנָתָן, proper name, masculine ᵐ5 Ἰωναθαν through-out,…
H3083. Yehonathan
יוֺנָתָן יְהוֺנָתָן, proper name, masculine ᵐ5 Ἰωναθαν through-out, with occasional variant reading (׳י hath given; compare נְתַנְאֵל נְתַנְיָהוּ, אֶלְנָתָן, & references, Temanite רמננתן HalRÉJ 1884, ix. 7 f. NbrStud. Bib. i. 211; Sabean והבאום, Hal10) —
1 ׳יְהוֺ son of Saul 1Sa 14:6, 1Sa 14:8; 1Sa 18:1 (twice in verse) + 40 t. 1Samuel; 2Sa 1:4 2Sa 1:18t. 2Samuel; 1Ch 8:33-34, 1Ch 9:39-40, = ׳יוֺ 1Sa 13:2, 327t. 1Samuel; 1Ch 10:2.
2 ׳יְהוֺ son of Abiathar 2Sa 15:27, 2Sa 15:36; 2Sa 17:17, 2Sa 17:20; = ׳יוֺ 1Ki 1:42-43,.
3 ׳יְהוֺ nephew of David 2Sa 21:21 = 1Ch 20:7; apparently: called Jonadab 2Sa 13:3ff. where ᵐ5L Ἰωναθαν, compare יהונדב
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4 ׳יְהוֺ; דּוֺד of David, i.e. his uncle? 1Ch 27:32.
5 ׳יְהוֺ one of David's heroes 2Sa 23:32 (compare Dr) = יוֺנָתָן 1Ch 11:34.
6 ׳יְהוֺ one of David's treasurers 1Ch 27:25.
7 ׳יְהוֺ Scribe Jer 37:15, Jer 37:20. Jer 38:26.
8 Levites
a. ׳יְהוֺ2Ch 17:8;
b. ׳יוֺ Neh 12:35.
9 ׳יְהוֺ a priest Neh 12:18.
10 ׳יְהוֺ priest to the tribe of Dan, son of Gershom Jdg 18:30.
11 ׳יוֺ a Judaite captain, after fall of Jerusalem Jer 40:8.
12 ׳יוֺ a Judaite 1Ch 2:32-33,.
13 ׳יוֺ father of Ebed Ezr 8:6.
14 ׳יוֺ son of Asahel Ezr 10:15.
15 ׳יוֺ a priest Neh 12:14.
16 ׳יוֺ a son of Joiada Neh 12:11 (twice in verse) apparently = יְהוֺחָנָן
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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 People82 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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