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Biblical names and their meanings: J

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Jaakan - tribulation; labor
Jaakobah - supplanter; deceiver; the heel
Jaala - ascending; a little doe or goat
Jaalam (name) - hidden; young man; heir
Jaanai - whom Jehovah answers
Jaasau - Whom Jehovah made
Jaasiel - God's work
Jaazaniah - whom the Jehovah will hear
Jaazah - Jaazar - Jehovah helps
Jaaziah - Jaaziel - the strength of the Jehovah
Jabal - which glides away
Jabbok - evacuation; dissipation; wrestling
Jabesh - dryness; confusion; shame
Jabez - sorrow; trouble
Jabin - 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 - abbreviation of Jehovah
Jahaleel - praising God; light of God
Jahath - broken in pieces; descending
Jahaz - Jahazah - quarrel; dispute
Jahaziah - the vision of Jehovah
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 - 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 - Jannes - who speaks or answers; afflicted; poor
Janoah - Janohah - resting; tarrying; deriving
Janum - sleeping
Japhet - enlarged; fair; persuading
Japheth - same as Japhet
Japhia - enlightening; appearing
Japhlet - 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 Jehovah; Jehovah 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 - 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 - Whom Jehovah searching out; leads
Jeberechiah - speaking well of - or kneeling to - Jehovah
Jebus - treading under foot; manger
Jebusi - trodden under foot; mangers
Jecamiah - resurrection - or confirmation - or revenge - of Jehovah
Jecoliah - perfection - or power - of Jehovah
Jeconiah - preparation - or stability - of Jehovah
Jedaiah - the hand of the Lord; confessing Jehovah
Jedeiah - one Lord; the joy of the Jehovah
Jediael - the science - or knowledge - of God
Jedidah - well beloved; amiable
Jedidiah - beloved of Jehovah
Jediel - the knowledge - or renewing - of God
Jeduthun - his law; giving praise
Jeezer - island of help
Jeffrey - God's peace
Jegar-sahadutha - heap of witness
Jehaleleel - Jehalelel - praising God; clearness of God
Jehaziel - same as Jahaziel
Jehdeiah - Whom Jehovah makes glad
Jeheiel - God liveth
Jehezekel - strength of God
Jehiah - Jehovah liveth
Jehiskiah - the strength - or taking - of Jehovah
Jehoadah - passing over; testimony of Jehovah
Jehoaddan - pleasure - or time - of Jehovah
Jehoahaz - possession of Jehovah
Jehoash - fire of Jehovah
Jehohanan - grace - or mercy - or gift - of Jehovah
Jehoiachin - preparation - or strength - of Jehovah
Jehoiada - knowledge of Jehovah
Jehoiakim - avenging - or establishing - or resurrection - of Jehovah
Jehoiarib - fighting - or multiplying - of Jehovah
Jehonadab - Jonadab - free giver; liberality
Jehonathan - gift of Jehovah; gift of a dove
Jehoram - exaltation of Jehovah
Jehoshaphat - Jehovah is judge
Jehosheba - fullness - or oath - of Jehovah
Jehoshua - same as Joshua
Jehovah - self-subsisting
Jehovah-jireh - Jehovah will provide
Jehovah-nissi - Jehovah my banner
Jehovah-shalom - Jehovah send peace
Jehovah-shammah - Jehovah is there
Jehovah-tsidkenu - Jehovah our righteousness
Jehozabad - Jehovah dowry; having a dowry
Jehozadak - justice of Jehovah
Jehu - himself who exists
Jehubbah - hiding - binding
Jehucal - mighty; perfect; wasted
Jehud - 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 Jehovah
Jekuthiel - hope - or congregation - of Jehovah
Jemima - handsome as the day
Jemuel - God's day; son of God
Jephthah - Whom God sets free
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 Jehovah
Jeremoth - eminences; one that fears death
Jeriah - fear - or throwing down - of Jehovah
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 Jehovah
Jeshebeab - sitting - or captivity - of the father
Jesher - right; singing
Jeshimon - solitude; desolation
Jeshishai - ancient; rejoicing exceedingly
Jeshohaia - Jehovahpressing; 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 - Jehovah is salvation; deliverer; help
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 - Jeuz - he that is devoured
Jew - same as Judah
Jezaniah - nourishment - or weapons - of Jehovah
Jezebel - chaste
Jezer - island of help
Jeziah - Jeziel - sprinkling of Jehovah
Jezoar - clear; white
Jezrahiah - Jehovah arises; brightness of Jehovah
Jezreel - 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 Jehovah
Joahaz - apprehending; possessing; seeing
Joakim - rising or establishing of Jehovah
Joanna - grace or gift of Jehovah
Joash - who despairs or burns
Joatham - same as Jotham
Job - he that weeps or cries
Jobab - sorrowful - hated
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 (or Juha) - who enlivens or gives life
Johanan - who is liberal or merciful
John - the grace or mercy of Jehovah
Joiarib - chiding - or multiplying - of Jehovah
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 - 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 - Saint Joseph - Joseph of Arimathea - increase; addition
Joses - same as Jose
Joshah - being; forgetting; owing
Joshaviah - the seat - alteration - or captivity of Jehovah
Joshbekesha - it is requiring or beseeching
Joshua - a savior; a deliverer
Josiah - the Lord burns; the fire of Jehovah
Josibiah - the seat - or captivity of Jehovah
Josiphiah - increase of Jehovah; Jehovah's finishing
Jotham - the perfection of Jehovah
Jothath - 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 Jehovah; confession
Judas - Jude - same as Judah
Judaea - 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