Bible Names

Eshtemoa: meaning of the name

Eshtemoa means “the bosom of a woman.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Eshtemoa in Hebrew and Greek

אֶשְׁתְּמֹעַ H851

ʼEshtᵉmôaʻ (esh-tem-o'-ah) — Eshtemoa or Eshtemoh, a place in Palestine

or אֶשְׁתְּמוֹעַ; or אֶשְׁתְּמֹה; from H8085 (שָׁמַע) (in the sense of obedience);

Who named Eshtemoa in the Bible

Places named Eshtemoa

Eshtemoa in Scripture

“Eshtemoa” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 21:14

    And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,

  • 1 Samuel 30:28

    And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

  • 1 Chronicles 4:17

    And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:19

    And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:57

    And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,