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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3082

יְהוֹנָדָב

Yehonadabyeh-ho-naw-dawb'

Jonadab

8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Yᵉhôwnâdâb

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3082is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 6
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3082

Jehonadab, the name of an Israelite and of an Arab

The King James renders it: Jehonadab, Jonadab. Compare H3122 (יוֹנָדָב).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Yehonadab is rendered "Jonadab". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 13:5Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
  • The Greek text spells it six different ways.

The first use

Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”

2 Samuel 13:5יְה֣וֹנָדָ֔ב

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's eight uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 36 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Jonadab7
  • and Jonadab1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

יְהוּדִיYehudiJewUses75
יְהוּדָאִיYehudaiJewUses10
יְהוּדִיתYehudithJudahiteUses6

All 8, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

6 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יְהוֹנָדָ֣ב3
  • וִיהוֹנָדָ֥ב1
  • יְה֣וֹנָדָ֔ב1
  • יְהוֹנָדָב֩1
  • יְהוֹנָדָ֥ב1
  • יְהוֹנָדָ֤ב1

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)7HNpm
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm

2 Samuel

one use
  • Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”

    2 Samuel 13:5

    • יְה֣וֹנָדָ֔בyehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab

2 Kings

three uses
  • When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,

    2 Kings 10:15

    • יְהוֹנָדָב֩yehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab
    • יְהוֹנָדָ֥בyehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab
  • Next, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”

    2 Kings 10:23

    • וִיהוֹנָדָ֥בvihonadavconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Jonadab

Jeremiah

four uses
  • And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

    Jeremiah 35:8

    • יְהוֹנָדָ֤בyehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab
  • The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!

    Jeremiah 35:14

    • יְהוֹנָדָ֣בyehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab
  • Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.

    Jeremiah 35:16

    • יְהוֹנָדָ֣בyehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab
  • Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,

    Jeremiah 35:18

    • יְהוֹנָדָ֣בyehonadavproper noun (a name)tagged: Jonadab

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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