Bible Names

Jediael: meaning of the name

Jediael means “the science, or knowledge, of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jediael in Hebrew and Greek

יְדִיעֲאֵל H3043

Yᵉdîyʻăʼêl (yed-ee-ah-ale') — Jediael, the name of three Israelites

from H3045 (יָדַע) and H410 (אֵל); knowing God;

People named Jediael in the Bible

Jediael in Scripture

“Jediael” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:6

    The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:10

    The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:11

    All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

  • 1 Chronicles 11:45

    Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:20

    As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:2

    And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,