Bible Names

Hosah: meaning of the name

Hosah means “trusting.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hosah in Hebrew and Greek

חֹסָה H2621

Chôçâh (kho-saw') — Chosah, an Israelite; also a place in Palestine

from H2620 (חָסָה); hopeful;

Who named Hosah in the Bible

Places named Hosah

Hosah in Scripture

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

  • Joshua 19:29

    And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

  • 1 Chronicles 16:38

    And Obed–edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed–edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:

  • 1 Chronicles 26:10

    Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)

  • 1 Chronicles 26:11

    Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:16

    To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.