Bible Names

Hoshaiah: meaning of the name

Hoshaiah means “the salvation of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hoshaiah in Hebrew and Greek

הוֹשַׁעְיָה H1955

Hôwshaʻyâh (ho-shah-yaw') — Hoshajah, the name of two Israelites

from H3467 (יָשַׁע) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has saved;

People named Hoshaiah in the Bible

Hoshaiah in Scripture

“Hoshaiah” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Nehemiah 12:32

    And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,

  • Jeremiah 42:1

    Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

  • Jeremiah 43:2

    Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: