Bible Names

Johanan: meaning of the name

Johanan means “who is liberal or merciful.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Johanan in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹחָנָן H3110

Yôwchânân (yo-khaw-nawn') — Jochanan, the name of nine Israelites

a form of H3076 (יְהוֹחָנָן);

People named Johanan in the Bible

Johanan in Scripture

“Johanan” appears in 27 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 25:23

    And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:15

    And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:24

    And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:9

    And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:10

    And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)

  • 1 Chronicles 12:4

    And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:12

    Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

  • 2 Chronicles 28:12

    Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,