JEHOHANAN otro, whom Jehovah bestows =Ocobca pos, Ges., or rather, he to whom Jehovah is gracious, or the grace of Jehovah : LXX. 'Iwakty, 'IwyciOat, ; Vulg. Yokanan). The name of several persons.
A military leader under Jehoshaphat, next to Adnah, who was first in command (2 Chron.
is ; also xxiii. 1). The number of troops assigned to each commander in this connection is obviously an exaggeration.
2. The father of Azariah, who was one of the heads of the children of Ephraim,' who seconded the prophet Oded in opposing the retention of the two hundred thousand captives of Judah taken by Pekah, king of Israel, declaring that they should not be brought into Samaria to add to the sins of Israel ; and who, in common with other chiefs, clothed those that were naked among them' out of the spoils, and gave them to eat and drink, and anointed them, and carried all that were feeble among them upon asses, and brought them back as far as Jericho, the city of palm trees' (2 Chron. xxviii. 6-15).
3. The sixth son of Meshelarniah or Shelemiah, a porter of the family of the Kohrites (1 Chron.
xxvi. 3).
4. The son of Amariah, a priest, in the days of Joiakim, the high-priest (Neh. xii. 13).
5. The son of Shechaniah, the father-in-law of Tobiah, and who had married the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, whose interest, therefore, was sufficiently powerful to support Tobiah (Neh. vi. 18).
6. The son of Eliashib, who had a chamber about the Temple, where Ezra bewailed the trans gressions of the people of the captivity in the mat ter of the strange wives (Ezra x. 6 ; Neh. xii.
22, 23).
7. One of the four sons of Behai who had taken strange wives (Ezra x. 28).
S. A priest who took part in the joyful festivi ties of the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, re built by the returned captives (Neh. xii. 42).
In the A. V. the form of the word in Nos. 3, 5, 6, is Johanan. The name is of very frequent occur rence in later Jewish history. Its form in Josephus is 'liociyinls John.—I. J.