יוֹכֶבֶד Yocheved
Often spelled Jochebed in English. Every verse in which this name stands — 2 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.
Mother of Moshe, Aharon, and Miriam, of the tribe of Levi, who hid the infant Moshe three months before setting him adrift on the Nile in a basket (Exodus 2, 6:20; Numbers 26:59). Numbers 26:59 names her as a daughter of Levi, born to the tribe in Egypt.
וַיִּקַּח עַמְרָם אֶת־יוֹכֶבֶד דֹּֽדָתוֹ לוֹ לְאִשָּׁה וַתֵּלֶד לוֹ אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן וְאֶת־מֹשֶׁה וּשְׁנֵי חַיֵּי עַמְרָם שֶׁבַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָֽה
And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.
וְשֵׁם אֵשֶׁת עַמְרָם יוֹכֶבֶד בַּת־לֵוִי אֲשֶׁר יָלְדָה אֹתָהּ לְלֵוִי בְּמִצְרָיִם וַתֵּלֶד לְעַמְרָם אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן וְאֶת־מֹשֶׁה וְאֵת מִרְיָם אֲחֹתָֽם
And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Quick answers
What is the gematria of Yocheved?
Yocheved (Jochebed) — יוכבד in Hebrew — has a gematria of 42 in the standard method.
How many times is Yocheved named in the Tanakh?
2 times, first at Exodus 6:20.
A spelling is not a name. The written word יוכבד stands 2 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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