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Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
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| Jaakan - "tribulation; labor" | Jaakobah - "supplanter; deceiver; the heel" | Jaala - "ascending; a little doe or goat" | |
| Jaalam - "hidden; young man; heir | "Jaanai - "answering; afflicting; making poor" | Jaasau - "doing; my doing" | |
| Jaasiel - "God's work" | Jaazaniah - "whom the Lord will hear" | Jaazah or Jaazar - "helper" | |
| Jaaziah or Jaaziel - "the strength of the Lord" | Jabal - "which glides away" | Jabbok - "evacuation; dissipation; wrestling" | |
| Jabesh - "dryness; confusion; shame" | Jabez - "sorrow; trouble" | Jabin or Jabneh - "he that understands; building" | |
| Jabneel - "building of God" | Jachan - "wearing out; oppressing" | Jachin - "he that strengthens and makes steadfast" | |
| Jacob - "that supplants, undermines; the heel" | Jada - "knowing" | Jadau - "his hand; his confession" | |
| Jaddua - "known" | Jael - "he that ascends; a kid" | Jagur - "husbandman; stranger" | |
| Jah - "the everlasting" | Jahaleel - "praising God; light of God" | content | |
| Jahath - "broken in pieces; descending" | Jahaz or Jahazah - "quarrel; dispute" | Jahaziah - "the vision of the Lord" | |
| Jahaziel - "seeing God" | Jahdiel - "the unity, or sharpness, or revenge, of God" | Jahdo - "I alone; his joy; his sharpness of wit; his newness" | |
| Jahleel - "waiting for, or beseeching, or hope in, God" | Jahmai - "warm; making warm" | Jahzeel - "God hasteth, or divideth" | |
| Jair or Jairus - "my light; who diffuses light" | Jakan - same as Achan | Jakim - "rising; confirming; establishing" | |
| Jalon - "tarrying; murmuring" | Jambres - "poverty; bitter; a rebel" | James - same as Jacob | |
| Jamin - "right hand; south wind" | Jamlech - "reigning; asking counsel" | Janna or Jannes - "who speaks or answers; afflicted; poor" | |
| Janoah or Janohah - "resting; tarrying; deriving" | Janum - "sleeping" | Japhet - "enlarged; fair; persuading" | |
| Japhia - "enlightening; appearing" | Japhlet or Japhleti - "delivered; banished" | Japho - "fairness; comeliness" | |
| Jarah - "a wood; honeycomb; watching closely" | Jareb - "a revenger" | Jared - "a ruling; commanding; coming down" | |
| Jaresiah - "the bed of the Lord; the Lord hath taken away; poverty" | Jarib - "fighting; chiding; multiplying; avenging" | Jarmuth - "fearing, or seeing, or throwing down, death" | |
| Jarvah - "breathing, or making, a sweet smell" | Jashem or Jashen - "ancient; sleeping" | Jasher - "righteous; upright" | |
| Jashobeam - "the people sitting; or captivity of the people" | Jashub - "a returning; a controversy; a dwelling place" | Jasiel - "the strength of God" | |
| Jason - "he that cures" | Jathniel - "gift of God" | Jattir - "a remnant; excellent" | |
| Javan - "deceiver; one who makes sad" | Jazeel - "strength of God" | Jazer - "assistance; helper" | |
| Jaziz - "brightness; departing" | Jearim - "a leap; woods" | Jeaterai - "searching out" | |
| Jeberechiah - "speaking well of, or kneeling to, the Lord" | Jebus - "treading under foot; manger" | Jebusi - "trodden under foot; mangers" | |
| Jecamiah - "resurrection, or confirmation, or revenge, of the Lord" | Jecoliah - "perfection, or power, of the Lord" | Jeconiah - "preparation, or stability, of the Lord" | |
| Jedaiah - "the hand of the Lord; confessing the Lord" | Jedeiah - "one Lord; the joy of the Lord" | Jediael - "the science, or knowledge, of God" | |
| Jedidah - "well beloved; amiable" | Jedidiah - "beloved of the Lord" | Jediel - "the knowledge, or renewing, of God" | |
| Jeduthun - "his law; giving praise" | Jeezer - "island of help" | Jegar-sahadutha - "heap of witness" | |
| Jehaleleel or Jehalelel - "praising God; clearness of God" | Jehaziel - same as Jahaziel | Jehdeiah - "joy together, one Lord" | |
| Jeheiel - "God liveth" | Jehezekel - "strength of God" | Jehiah - "the Lord liveth" | |
| Jehiskiah - "the strength, or taking, of the Lord" | Jehoadah - "passing over; testimony of the Lord" | Jehoaddan - "pleasure, or time, of the Lord" | |
| Jehoahaz - "possession of the Lord" | Jehoash - "fire of the Lord" | Jehohanan - "grace, or mercy, or gift, of the Lord" | |
| Jehoiachin - "preparation, or strength, of the Lord" | Jehoiada - "knowledge of the Lord" | Jehoiakim - "avenging, or establishing, or resurrection, of the Lord" | |
| Jehoiarib - "fighting, or multiplying, of the Lord" | Jehonadab or Jonadab - "free giver; liberality" | Jehonathan - "gift of the Lord; gift of a dove" | |
| Jehoram - "exaltation of the Lord" | Jehoshaphat - "the Lord is judge" | Jehosheba - "fullness, or oath, of the Lord" | |
| Jehoshua - same as Joshua | Jehovah - "self-subsisting" | Jehovah-jireh - "the Lord will provide" | |
| Jehovah-nissi - "the Lord my banner" | Jehovah-shalom - "the Lord send peace" | Jehovah-shammah - "the Lord is there" | |
| Jehovah-tsidkenu - "the Lord our righteousness" | Jehozabad - "the Lord's dowry; having a dowry" | Jehozadak - "justice of the Lord" | |
| Jehu - "himself who exists" | Jehubbah - "hiding, binding" | Jehucal - "mighty; perfect; wasted" | |
| Jehud or Jehudi - "praising; conferring" | Jehudijah - "the praise of the Lord" | Jehush - "keeping counsel; fastened" | |
| Jekabzeel - "the congregation of God" | Jekamean - "the people shall arise" | Jekamiah - "establishing, or revenging, of the Lord" | |
| Jekuthiel - "hope, or congregation, of the Lord" | Jemima - "handsome as the day" | Jemuel - "God's day; son of God" | |
| Jephunneh - "he that beholds" | Jerah - "the moon; month; smelling sweet" | Jerahmeel - "the mercy, or the beloved, of God" | |
| Jered - "ruling; coming down" | Jeremai - "my height; throwing forth waters" | Jeremiah - "exaltation of the Lord" | |
| Jeremoth - "eminences; one that fears death" | Jeriah - "fear, or throwing down, of the Lord" | Jerebai - "fighting; chiding; multiplying" | |
| Jericho - "his moon; his month; his sweet smell" | Jeriel - "fear, or vision of God" | Jerijah - same as Jeriah | |
| Jerimoth - "he that fears or rejects death" | Jerioth - "kettles; breaking asunder" | Jeroboam - "he that opposes the people" | |
| Jeroham - "high; merciful; beloved" | Jerubbaal - "he that defends Baal, let Baal defend his cause" | Jerubbesheth - "let the idol of confusion defend itself" | |
| Jeruel - "fear, or vision of God" | Jerusalem - "vision of peace" | Jerusha - "banished; possession; inheritance" | |
| Jesaiah - "health, or salvation, of the Lord" | Jeshebeab - "sitting, or captivity, of the father" | Jesher - "right; singing" | |
| Jeshimon - "solitude; desolation" | Jeshishai - "ancient; rejoicing exceedingly" | Jeshohaia - "the Lord pressing; the meditation of God" | |
| Jeshua - same as Joshua | Jesiah - "sprinkling of the Lord" | Jesimiel - "naming, or astonishment, of God" | |
| Jesse - "gift; oblation; one who is" | Jesui - "even-tempered; flat country" | Jesus - "savior; deliverer" | |
| Jether - "he that excels" | Jetheth - "giving" | Jethlah - "hanging up; heaping up" | |
| Jethro - "his excellence; his posterity" | Jetur - "order; succession; mountainous" | Jeuel - "God hath taken away; God heaping up" | |
| Jeush or Jeuz - "he that is devoured" | Jew - same as Judah | Jezaniah - "nourishment, or weapons, of the Lord" | |
| Jezebel - "chaste" | Jezer - "island of help" | Jeziah or Jeziel - "sprinkling of the Lord" | |
| Jezoar - "clear; white" | Jezrahiah - "the Lord arises; brightness of the Lord" | Jezneel - "seed of God" | |
| Jibsam - "their drought, their confusion" | Jidlaph - "he that distills water" | Jimnah - "right hand; numbering; preparing" | |
| Jiphtah - "opening" | Jiphthael - "God opening" | Joab - "paternity; voluntary" | |
| Joah - "fraternity; brother of the Lord" | Joahaz - "apprehending; possessing; seeing" | Joakim - "rising or establishing of the Lord" | |
| Joanna - "grace or gift of the Lord" | Joash - "who despairs or burns" | Joatham - same as Jotham | |
| Job - "he that weeps or cries" | Jochebed - "glorious; honorable" | Joed - "witnessing; robbing; passing over" | |
| Joel - "he that wills or commands" | Joelah - "lifting up; profiting; taking away slander" | Joezer - "he that aids" | |
| Jogbehah - "an exalting; high" | Jogli - "passing over; turning back; rejoicing" | Joha - "who enlivens or gives life" | |
| Johanan - "who is liberal or merciful" | John - "the grace or mercy of the Lord" | Joiarib - "chiding, or multiplying, of the Lord" | |
| Jokdeam - "crookedness, or burning, of the people" | Jokim - "that made the sun stand still" | Jokmeam - "confirmation, or revenge, of the people" | |
| Jokneam - "possessing, or building up, of the people" | Jokshan - "an offense; hardness; a knocking" | Joktan - "small dispute; contention; disgust" | |
| Jonadab - "who gives liberally" | Jonah or Jonas - "a dove; he that oppresses; destroyer" | Jonan - "a dove; multiplying of the people" | |
| Jonathan - "given of God" | Joppa - "beauty; comeliness" | Jorah or Jorai - "showing; casting forth; a cauldron" | |
| Joram - "to cast; elevated" | Jordan - "the river of judgment" | Jorim - "he that exalts the Lord" | |
| Josabad - "having a dowry" | Josaphat - same as Jehoshaphat | Jose - "raised; who pardons" | |
| Joseph - "increase; addition" | Joses - same as Jose | Joshah - "being; forgetting; owing" | |
| Joshaviah - "the seat, alteration, or captivity of the Lord" | Joshbekesha - "it is requiring or beseeching" | Joshua - "a savior; a deliverer" | |
| Josiah - "the Lord burns; the fire of the Lord" | Josibiah - "the seat, or captivity of the Lord" | Josiphiah - "increase of the Lord; the Lord's finishing" | |
| Jotham - "the perfection of the Lord" | Jothath or Jothatha - "his goodness" | Jozabad - same as Josabad | |
| Jozachar - "remembering; of the male sex" | Jubal - "he that runs; a trumpet" | Jucal - "mighty; perfect" | |
| Judah - "the praise of the Lord; confession" | Judas or Jude - same as Judah | Judaea or Judea - same as Judah | |
| Judith - same as Judah | Julia - "downy; soft and tender hair" | Julius - same as Julia | |
| Junia - "youth | "Jupiter - "the father that helpeth" | Jushabhesed - "dwelling-place; change of mercy" | |
| Justus - "just or upright" | Juttah - "turning away |