Bible Names

Jeduthun: meaning of the name

Jeduthun means “his law; giving praise.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jeduthun in Hebrew and Greek

יְדוּתוּן H3038

Yᵉdûwthûwn (yed-oo-thoon') — Jeduthun, an Israelite

or יְדֻתוּן; or יְדִיתוּן; probably from H3034 (יָדָה); laudatory;

People named Jeduthun in the Bible

Jeduthun in Scripture

“Jeduthun” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:16

    And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

  • 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 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:

  • 1 Chronicles 25:3

    Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord.

  • 1 Chronicles 25:6

    All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

  • 2 Chronicles 5:12

    Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)