Midvash

יְהוֹשָׁפָטYᵉhôwshâphâṭ

proper name, masculine: hath judged

Pronunciation: yeh-ho-shaw-fawt' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3092

Meanings

1. king of Judah, son of Asa (1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 22:2; 2 Kings 1:17)

2. father of Jehu king of Israel (2 Kings 9:2; 2 Kings 9:14)

3. chronicler under David & Solomon, son of Ahilud (2 Samuel 8:16; 1 Kings 4:3; 1 Chronicles 18:15)

4. one of Solomon's 12 officers who provided victuals for the royal household (1 Kings 4:17)

5. one of David's heroes (1 Chronicles 11:43)

6. a priest & trumpeter in David's time (1 Chronicles 15:24)

7. symbolical name of a valley near Jerusalem, place of ultimate judgement (1 Chronicles 4:2; 1 Chronicles 4:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 84 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 8:16 Joab son of Zeruiah was commander of the army. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the royal historian.
  • 2 Samuel 20:24 Adoniram was in charge of forced labor. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the royal historian.
  • 1 Kings 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were court secretaries. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the royal historian.
  • 1 Kings 4:17 Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar.
  • 1 Kings 15:24 When Asa died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, became the next king.
  • 1 Kings 22:2 Then during the third year, King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to visit King Ahab of Israel.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).