Strong H3181יַחְמַי

Jahmai

Transliteration
yachmay
Pronunciation
yakh-mah'-ee
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

Probably from H3179; hot;
{Jachmai} an Israelite: - Jahmai.

Meaning of the name

Jahmai = "whom Jehovah guards"

Detailed definition

A man of the tribe of Issachar living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.2;
son of: Tola (H8439);
brother of: Uzzi (H5813H), Rephaiah (H7509I), Jeriel (H3400), Ibsam (H3005) and Shemuel (H8050I)

In the biblical story

Jahmai

Son of Tola, an Issacharite

Jahmai, a son of Tola, was a descendant of Issachar and a clan head.

In the Bible

Strong H3181 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • jahmai1

First verses

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:2
    And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
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