Bible Names

Amittai: meaning of the name

Amittai means “true; fearing.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Amittai in Hebrew and Greek

אֲמִתַּי H573

ʼĂmittay (am-it-tah'ee) — Amittai, an Israelite

from H571 (אֶמֶת); veracious;

Who named Amittai in the Bible

Amittai in Scripture

“Amittai” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 14:25

    He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.

  • Jonah 1:1

    Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,