Bible Names

John: meaning of the name

John means “the grace or mercy of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

John in Hebrew and Greek

Ἰωάννης G2491

Iōánnēs — Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites

of Hebrew origin (H03110);

People named John in the Bible

John in Scripture

“John” appears in 130 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Matthew 3:1

    In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

  • Matthew 3:4

    And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

  • Matthew 3:13

    Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

  • Matthew 3:14

    But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

  • Matthew 4:12

    Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

  • Matthew 4:21

    And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

  • Matthew 9:14

    Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

  • Matthew 10:2

    Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;