Bible Names

Jerusha: meaning of the name

Jerusha means “banished; possession; inheritance.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Jerusha in Hebrew and Greek

יְרוּשָׁא H3388

Yᵉrûwshâʼ (yer-oo-shaw') — Jerusha or Jerushah, as Israelitess

or יְרוּשָׁה feminine passive participle of H3423 (יָרַשׁ); possessed;

Jerusha in Scripture

“Jerusha” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 15:33

    Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.