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Jedidiah 
The name Jedidiah is mentioned only once in the Bible, and that is curious because it is the name which the prophet Nathan gave to Solomon.
Solomon's father, king David, had stolen Uriah's wife Bathsheba, got her pregnant, and subsequently had Uriah killed. The male child that Bathsheba bore died after seven days, as foretold by Nathan. The next child of David and Bathsheba was named Solomon.
The name Jedidiah is a combination of two elements. The first element comes from the verb  (ydd 846), love, which looks awfully kindred to the verb  (dod 410a), sway, fondle, love (the source of the name David).
None of the sources report an etymological relationship but Isaiah seems pretty confident in using these words in parallel: "I will sing now to my well-beloved ( ) a song of my beloved ()" (5:1).
According to TWOTOT , the basic meaning of the derived word (a noun according to TWOTOT ; an adjective according to BDB) (yadid 846a), 'is "one greatly loved" by God or by man.' Instances of this word are found in Deut 33:12, Ps 127:2, Ps 60:5, Jer 11:15.
Another derivation of this verb is the noun  (yedidot 846b), love song, as used in the title of Psalm 45. This wonderful word is grammatically equivalent to the plural of the word , and bears the literal meaning of 'loved ones.'
And while we're at it, the word  (yod 844) means hand, according to TWOTOT in the sense of the instrument 'used to perform functions of man's will,' hence the many proverbial usages of hand (be in one's hands, stretch forth the hand, laying on of hands, etc). In Joh 14:15 Jesus says, "If you love Me, keep My commandments," which ties directly into the will of God, which in turn is often depicted as the hand of God (Ezr 7:9, Job 27:11, 1 Pet 5:6). Ergo: the word (dearly beloved) looks like twice (hand); hand-hand.
The second element of the name Jedidiah is  , which is the commonly accepted abbreviated form of  , which is YHWH, the Name of the Lord.
The name Jedidiah means Beloved Of Yah.
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