Bible Names

Jokshan: meaning of the name

Jokshan means “an offense; hardness; a knocking.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jokshan in Hebrew and Greek

יׇקְשָׁן H3370

Yoqshân (yok-shawn') — Jokshan, an Arabian patriarch

from H3369 (יָקֹשׁ); insidious;

Who named Jokshan in the Bible

Jokshan in Scripture

“Jokshan” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 25:2

    And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

  • Genesis 25:3

    And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:32

    Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.