יְהוֹזָבָד
ye.ho.za.vad
Jehozabad
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredBased on the provided data, Jehozabad (יהוזבד) is a Hebrew name belonging to a person. The name is spelled ye.ho.za.vad, indicating its construction. With a Strong's number of H3075, it is unique among the many names in the Hebrew Bible. Jehozabad occurs only twice in the Bible, suggesting a specific, perhaps lesser-known individual. The semantic domain of Proper Name: Person restricts Jehozabad's meaning to an individual's name, rather than any position or role. This is consistent with the common use of names in the Hebrew Bible to identify people. The fact that Jehozabad has only two occurrences underscores its relatively minor or limited significance in the biblical narrative. Given its rarity and specificity, it's likely that Jehozabad was a person connected to a particular event, family, or community in biblical times. The extent of that connection cannot be discerned from the available data, but it serves as a specific indicator of an individual in the biblical records.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text
These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
2 Kings 12:21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.