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Jokshan meaning

יקשן

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🔼The name Jokshan: Summary

Meaning
One Who Sets A Snare, Fowler
Etymology
From the verb יקש (yaqosh) or קוש (qush), to lay a snare.

🔼The name Jokshan in the Bible

Jokshan is one of the six sons of Abraham with his second wife Keturah (Genesis 25:2). The Bible doesn't mention Jokshan after this, and his only claim to fame is that he is a brother of Midian (and a son of Abraham, of course, which is also no small thing).

🔼Etymology of the name Jokshan

The name Jokshan comes from יקש (yaqosh) meaning to lay a snare:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
יקש

The verb יקש (yaqosh) means to lay bait or a snare to catch animals, and over time came to include the figurative "snaring" a person with alluring enticements. Nouns יקוש (yaqosh) and יקוש (yaqush) describe a snarer or fowler. Noun מוקש (moqesh) means either bait or snare. Verb קוש (qush) also means to snare and is probably a by-form of the previous.

🔼Jokshan meaning

The name Jokshan means One Who Sets A Snare, or Fowler (NOBSE Study Bible Name List). Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names also derives this name from the above mentioned verb, and renders the name Jokshan as Sportsman, apparently rather creatively assuming that Jokshan was hunting for fun.