Bible Names

Jochebed: meaning of the name

Jochebed means “glorious; honorable.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Jochebed in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹכֶבֶד H3115

Yôwkebed (yo-keh'-bed) — Jokebed, the mother of Moses

from H3068 (יְהֹוָה) contracted and H3513 (כָּבַד); Jehovah-gloried;

Who named Jochebed in the Bible

Jochebed in Scripture

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

  • Exodus 6:20

    And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

  • Numbers 26:59

    And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.