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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

Jaazar, helper

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 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

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; 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judah

the praise of the Lord; 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

Roswell D. Hitchcock, Bible Names Dictionary, from An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names (1869). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.