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Definitions of names and terms found in the BibleA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
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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
- Jaazah - Jaazar, helper
- Jaazaniah - whom the Lord will hear
- Jaaziah - Jaaziel, the strength of the Lord
- 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 - the everlasting
- Jahaleel - praising God; light of God
- Jahath - broken in pieces; descending
- Jahaz - 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 newnes
- 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
- 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 the Lord; the Lord hath taken away; pov
- 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 - 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
- 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 - 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
- Jehoiarib - fighting, or multiplying, of the Lord
- Jehonadab - 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 - 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
- Jerebai - fighting; chiding; multiplying
- 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
- 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 - Jeuz, he that is devoured
- Jew - same as Judah
- Jezaniah - nourishment, or weapons, of the Lord
- Jezebel - chaste
- Jezer - island of help
- Jeziah - Jeziel, sprinkling of the Lord
- Jezneel - seed of God
- Jezoar - clear; white
- Jezrahiah - the Lord arises; brightness of the Lord
- 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
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Jothatha, his goodness
- Jozabad - same as Josabad
- Jozachar - remembering; of the male sex
- Jubal - he that runs; a trumpet
- Jucal - mighty; perfect
- Judaea - Judea, same as Judah
- Judah - the praise of the Lord; confession
- Judas - Jude, 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