Bible Names

Mithredath: meaning of the name

Mithredath means “breaking the law.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Mithredath in Hebrew and Greek

מִתְרְדָת H4990

Mithrᵉdâth (mith-red-awth') — Mithredath, the name of two Persians

of Persian origin;

People named Mithredath in the Bible

Mithredath in Scripture

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

  • Ezra 1:8

    Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

  • Ezra 4:7

    And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.