יוֹחָנָןYôwchânân
proper name, masculine: hath been gracious
Pronunciation: yo-khaw-nawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3110
Meanings
1.
a. a priest (Nehemiah 12:13)
b. high priest (Ezra 10:6; Nehemiah 12:22; Nehemiah 12:23)
2. Levite (Nehemiah 12:42)
3. son of Tobiah (Nehemiah 6:18)
4. porter in David's time (1 Chronicles 26:3)
5. a Judaite captain (2 Chronicles 17:15; 2 Chronicles 23:1)
6. an Ephraimite (2 Chronicles 28:12)
7. an Israelite, Ezra's time (Ezra 10:28)
8. a Jewish captain, after fall of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:8; Jeremiah 40:13)
9. eldest son of king Josiah (1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Kings 23:30)
10. a post-exilic prince of the line of David (1 Chronicles 3:24)
11. father of Azariah, priest in Solomon's time (1 Chronicles 5:35; 1 Chronicles 5:36)
12. two of David's mighty men
a. a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 12:5)
b. a Gadite (1 Chronicles 12:13)
13. a returning exile (Ezra 8:12)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 22 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 25:23 When all the army commanders and their men learned that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they went to see him at Mizpah. These included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, and all their men.
- 1 Chronicles 3:15 The sons of Josiah were Johanan (the oldest), Jehoiakim (the second), Zedekiah (the third), and Jehoahaz (the fourth).
- 1 Chronicles 3:24 The sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani—seven in all.
- 1 Chronicles 6:9 Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah. Azariah was the father of Johanan.
- 1 Chronicles 6:10 Johanan was the father of Azariah, the high priest at the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 8:12 From the family of Azgad: Johanan son of Hakkatan and 110 other men.
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).