Every Name in Tanakh

יְדִידְיָה Jedidiah

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 43×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

Strong's records this name for Solomon. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at 2 Samuel 12:25.

2 Samuel 12:25שמואל ב יב:כה

וַיִּשְׁלַח בְּיַד נָתָן הַנָּבִיא וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ יְדִידְיָהּ בַּעֲבוּר יְהוָֽה

and He sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, for the LORD’S sake.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Jedidiah?

Jedidiah — ידידיה in Hebrew — has a gematria of 43 in the standard method.

How many times is Jedidiah named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at 2 Samuel 12:25.

A spelling is not a name. The written word ידידיה stands 1 time in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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