Bible Names

Jezaniah: meaning of the name

Jezaniah means “nourishment, or weapons, of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jezaniah in Hebrew and Greek

יְזַנְיָה H3153

Yᵉzanyâh (yez-an-yaw') — Jezanjah, an Israelite

or יְזַנְיָהוּ; probably for H2970 (יַאֲזַנְיָה);

Who named Jezaniah in the Bible

Jezaniah in Scripture

“Jezaniah” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Jeremiah 40:8

    Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

  • 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,