Bible Names

Nahath: meaning of the name

Nahath means “rest; a leader.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nahath in Hebrew and Greek

נַחַת H5184

Nachath (nakh'-ath) — Nachath, the name of an Edomite and of two Israelites

the same as H5183 (נַחַת); quiet;

People named Nahath in the Bible

Nahath in Scripture

“Nahath” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 36:13

    And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

  • Genesis 36:17

    And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:37

    The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:26

    As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

  • 2 Chronicles 31:13

    And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.