יוֹיָדָעYôwyâdâʻ
proper name, masculine: knoweth
Pronunciation: yo-yaw-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3111
Meanings
1. father of Benaiah (David's time) (2 Samuel 23:30; 2 Samuel 20:23; 2 Samuel 8:18)
2. (chief) priest at Jerusalem in time of Joash (2 Kings 11:4; 2 Kings 11:9; 2 Kings 11:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Nehemiah 3:6 The Old City Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid the beams, set up its doors, and installed its bolts and bars.
- Nehemiah 12:10 Jeshua the high priest was the father of Joiakim. Joiakim was the father of Eliashib. Eliashib was the father of Joiada.
- Nehemiah 12:11 Joiada was the father of Johanan. Johanan was the father of Jaddua.
- Nehemiah 12:22 A record of the Levite families was kept during the years when Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua served as high priest. Another record of the priests was kept during the reign of Darius the Persian.
- Nehemiah 13:28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, so I banished him from my presence.
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).