Every Name in Tanakh

יוֹיָדָע Jehoiada

Every verse in which this name stands — 5 places, 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 100×5 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

Strong's records this name for two Israelites. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Nehemiah 3:6 and last at Nehemiah 13:28.

Nehemiah 3:6נחמיה ג:ו

וְאֵת שַׁעַר הַיְשָׁנָה הֶחֱזִיקוּ יֽוֹיָדָע בֶּן־פָּסֵחַ וּמְשֻׁלָּם בֶּן־בְּסֽוֹדְיָה הֵמָּה קֵרוּהוּ וַֽיַּעֲמִידוּ דַּלְתֹתָיו וּמַנְעֻלָיו וּבְרִיחָֽיו

And the gate of the old city repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.

Nehemiah 12:10נחמיה יב:י

וְיֵשׁוּעַ הוֹלִיד אֶת־יֽוֹיָקִים וְיֽוֹיָקִים הוֹלִיד אֶת־אֶלְיָשִׁיב וְאֶלְיָשִׁיב אֶת־יוֹיָדָֽע

And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada,

Nehemiah 12:11נחמיה יב:יא

וְיוֹיָדָע הוֹלִיד אֶת־יוֹנָתָן וְיוֹנָתָן הוֹלִיד אֶת־יַדּֽוּעַ

and Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jaddua.

Nehemiah 12:22נחמיה יב:כב

הַלְוִיִּם בִּימֵי אֶלְיָשִׁיב יוֹיָדָע וְיוֹחָנָן וְיַדּוּעַ כְּתוּבִים רָאשֵׁי אָבוֹת וְהַכֹּהֲנִים עַל־מַלְכוּת דָּרְיָוֶשׁ הַפָּֽרְסִֽי

The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded heads of fathers’houses; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

Nehemiah 13:28נחמיה יג:כח

וּמִבְּנֵי יוֹיָדָע בֶּן־אֶלְיָשִׁיב הַכֹּהֵן הַגָּדוֹל חָתָן לְסַנְבַלַּט הַחֹרֹנִי וָאַבְרִיחֵהוּ מֵעָלָֽי

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Jehoiada?

Jehoiada — יוידע in Hebrew — has a gematria of 100 in the standard method.

How many times is Jehoiada named in the Tanakh?

5 times, first at Nehemiah 3:6.

A spelling is not a name. The written word יוידע stands 4 times 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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