Bible Names

Othniel: meaning of the name

Othniel means “the hour of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Othniel in Hebrew and Greek

עׇתְנִיאֵל H6274

ʻOthnîyʼêl (oth-nee-ale') — Othniel, an Israelite

from the same as H6273 (עׇתְנִי) and H410 (אֵל); force of God;

Who named Othniel in the Bible

Othniel in Scripture

“Othniel” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 15:17

    And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

  • Judges 1:13

    And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

  • Judges 3:9

    And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

  • Judges 3:11

    And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:13

    And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:15

    The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.