Transliteration: yehôchânân

Phonetic: yeh-ho-khaw-nawn'

BDB Definition:

1. a Korhite Levite and one of the doorkeepers to the tabernacle in the time of David
2. a captain of Judah under king Jehoshaphat
3. a priest during the high priesthood of Joiakim who returned with Zerubbabel
4. a high priest in the time of Ezra
5. a Levite priest who took part in the dedication of the wall in the time of Nehemiah
6. son of Tobiah
7. an Ephraimite
8. an Israelite with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
9. a Jewish captain after the fall of Jerusalem
   1. the eldest son of king Josiah
   2. a post-exilic prince of the line of David
   3. father of Azariah, priest in Solomon's time
   4. a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors
   5. a Gadite, one of David's mighty warriors
   6. a returning exile

Origin: from H3068" class="dictionary-topic-link">H3068 and H2603" class="dictionary-topic-link">H2603

TWOT entry: None

Part(s) of speech: Proper Name Masculine