Bible Names

Heman: meaning of the name

Heman means “their trouble; tumult; much; in great number.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Heman in Hebrew and Greek

הֵימָן H1968

Hêymân (hay-mawn') — Heman, the name of at least two Israelites

probably from H539 (אָמַן); faithful;

People named Heman in the Bible

Heman in Scripture

“Heman” appears in 15 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 4:31

    For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:6

    And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:33

    And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,

  • 1 Chronicles 15:17

    So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

  • 1 Chronicles 15:19

    So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

  • 1 Chronicles 16:41

    And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever;

  • 1 Chronicles 16:42

    And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.

  • 1 Chronicles 25:1

    Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: