JOHANAN cy? of Yehavah ; the con tracted form of yehohanan ; Sept. 'Itoocir and 'IceciPpav), one of the officers who came and recog nised Gedaliah as governor of Juthea after the de struction of Jerusalem, and who appears to have been the chief in authority and influence among them. He penetrated the designs of Ishmael against the governor, whom he endeavoured, with out success, to put upon his guard. When Ishmael had accomplished his design by the murder of Gedaliali, and was carrying away the principal persons at the seat of government as captives to the Ammonites, Johanan pursued him, and re leased them. Being fearful, however, that the Chaldxans might misunderstand the affair, and make him and those who were with him respon• sible for it, he resolved to withdraw for safety into Egypt, with the principal persons of the remnant left in the land. Jeremiah remonstrated against this decision ; but Johanan would not be moved, and even constmined the prophet himself to go with them. They proceeded to Tahpanhes, but nothing further is recorded of Johanan, B.C. 588 (2 Kings xxv. 23 ; Jer. xl. 8-16 ; xli.; xlii. ; xliii.)-J. K.
Nine other persons of this name are mentioned in the O. T. t. (Sept. 'Iceapciy). The son of Aza
riah I. and father of Azariah II. (I Chron. v. 15, 16 [A.V. vi. 9, lo]) [AzARTAH] ; 2. The son of Elioe nai Chron. 24) ; 3. The eldest son ofJosiah, king of Judah (i Chron. 15) ; 4. A Benjamite, one of David's captains, who joined him at Ziklag (t Chron. xii. 4) ; 5. Another of David's followers, one of the Gadites, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and whose feet were swift as roes upon the mountains (t Chron. xii. 12); 6. The father of Azariah, an Ephraimite in the time of Ahaz ; in the Heb. the full form of the name prilrr Yeko hanen (Sept. 'lcoaphs) is given (2 Chron. xxviii. 12); 7. The chief of the sons of Azgad, who returned with Ezra (Ezra viii. 12) ; 8. (inirr) The son of Eliashib, into whose chamber Ezra retired to mourn the transgression of those who had been seduced to marry strange wives (Ezm x. 6); Ile was one of the chief of the fathers of the tribe of Levi (Neh. xii. 23); 9. 0:rnril) The son of Tobiah the Ammonite, and the husband of the daughter of Meshullam the priest (Neh. vi. 18).-W. L. A.