Bible Names

Jahath: meaning of the name

Jahath means “broken in pieces; descending.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jahath in Hebrew and Greek

יַחַת H3189

Yachath (yakh'-ath) — Jachath, the name of four Israelites

from H3161 (יָחַד); unity;

People named Jahath in the Bible

Jahath in Scripture

“Jahath” appears in 7 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:2

    And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:20

    Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:43

    The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:10

    And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:11

    And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:22

    Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:12

    And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.