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Jehozabad meaning

Jehozabad in Biblical Hebrew
יהוזבד
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🔼The name Jehozabad: Summary

Meaning
Yah Has Given
Etymology
From (1) יהו (yahu), the shortened name of the Lord, and (2) the verb זבד (zabad), to give.
Related names
• Via יהו (yahu): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of yah- and yahu-names.
• Via זבד (zabad): Ammizabad, Elzabad, Jozabad, Zabad, Zabbai, Zabbud, Zabdi, Zabdiel, Zabud, Zebadiah, Zebedee, Zebidah

🔼The name Jehozabad in the Bible

There are three men named Jehozabad in the Bible, not counting those endowed with the contracted form of this name: Jozabad. The Jehozabads of the Bible are:

  • A son of Shomer and/or Shimrith, a woman from Moab (like Ruth and Orpah), who conspires against king Joash of Judah and kills him. His comrogue is Jozabad, son of Shimeath, a woman of Ammon. Joash' son and successor Amaziah executes them both (2 Kings 12:21, 14:5, 2 Chronicles 24:26).
  • A son of Obed-edom (1 Chronicles 26:4)
  • A military leader under king Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:18).

🔼Etymology of the name Jehozabad

The name Jehozabad consists of two elements, the first being יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), which in turn are abbreviated forms of the Tetragrammaton יהוה, YHWH, or Yahweh.

The second part of our name comes from the verb זבד (zabad), meaning to give:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
זבד

The verb זבד (zabad) means to give and the noun זבד (zebed) means gift. Both these words are used only once, in Genesis 30:20. These words' more common equivalents come from the root נתן (natan).

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🔼Jehozabad meaning

For a meaning of the name Jehozabad, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Yahweh Has Bestowed and BDB Theological Dictionary has the similar Yah Hath Bestowed. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names suggests the slightly different Whom The Lord Gave.