יוֹנָדָבYôwnâdâb
proper name, masculine: is noble, is liberal
Pronunciation: yo-naw-dawb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3122
Meanings
1. son of Rechab & chief of the Rechabites (2 Kings 10:15; 2 Kings 10:23; Jeremiah 35:8)
2. nephew of David (2 Samuel 13:5; 2 Samuel 13:3; 2 Samuel 13:32)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 13:3 But Amnon had a very crafty friend—his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David’s brother Shimea.
- 2 Samuel 13:32 But just then Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimea, arrived and said, “No, don’t believe that all the king’s sons have been killed! It was only Amnon! Absalom has been plotting this ever since Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 13:35 “Look!” Jonadab told the king. “There they are now! The king’s sons are coming, just as I said.”
- Jeremiah 35:6 but they refused. “No,” they said, “we don’t drink wine, because our ancestor Jehonadab son of Recab gave us this command: ‘You and your descendants must never drink wine.
- Jeremiah 35:10 We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed all the commands of Jehonadab, our ancestor.
- Jeremiah 35:19 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Recab will always have descendants who serve me.’”
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).