Bible Names

Shephatiah: meaning of the name

Shephatiah means “the Lord that judges.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shephatiah in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁפַטְיָה H8203

Shᵉphaṭyâh (shef-at-yaw') — Shephatjah, the name of ten Israelites

or שְׁפַטְיָהוּ; from H8199 (שָׁפַט) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has judged;

People named Shephatiah in the Bible

Shephatiah in Scripture

“Shephatiah” appears in 12 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Samuel 3:4

    And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

  • 1 Chronicles 3:3

    The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:5

    Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

  • 1 Chronicles 27:16

    Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:

  • 2 Chronicles 21:2

    And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

  • Ezra 2:4

    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

  • Ezra 2:57

    The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.

  • Ezra 8:8

    And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.