Strong H3083H3083Nיְהוֹנָתָן
Jonathan
One of the 9 senses of Strong H3083
- Transliteration
- yehônâthân
- Pronunciation
- yeh-ho-naw-thawn'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.37.15
Meaning of the name
Jonathan or Jehonathan = "Jehovah has given"
General definition
In the biblical story
Jonathan
Scribe with a house used as prison
Jonathan was a scribe who had a house in Jerusalem that was used as a prison.
In the Bible
Strong H3083N appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- jonathan3
First verses
- Jeremiah 37:15Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
- Jeremiah 37:20Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
- Jeremiah 38:26Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.