יַ֫חַת
Jahath
BDB lists 6 entries for ‘Jahath’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3189 appears — 7 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 6 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:2 יַ֔חַת וְ/יַ֣חַת n Proper conj + n Proper Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
- 1 Chronicles 6:20 יַ֥חַת n Proper Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
- 1 Chronicles 6:43 יַ֥חַת n Proper the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 23:10 יַ֣חַת n Proper The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
- 1 Chronicles 23:11 יַ֣חַת n Proper Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.
- 1 Chronicles 24:22 יָֽחַת n Proper Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
יחת (Yachath) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Jahath.” It clusters heavily in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 86% of its uses. It turns up in 7 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in 1 Chronicles 4:2. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3189 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 86%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Jahath 6×, Were jahath 2×
- American Standard Version†: Jahath 7×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Jahath 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Jahath 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3189 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3189 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3189 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3189 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. grandson of Judah 1 Ch 4:2(×2), 𝔊 Ιεθ, 𝔊L Ιαωθ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:2
- 2. Levites:
- a. 1 Ch 6:5, 28, 𝔊 Ιεεθ, 𝔊L Ιααθ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:5
- b. 1 Ch 23:10, 11, 𝔊 Ιεθ, 𝔊L Ιειηλ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 23:10
- c. 1 Ch 24:22, 𝔊 Ιναθ, 𝔊L Ιααθ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:22
- d. 2 Ch 34:12, 𝔊 Ιε(θ), 𝔊L Ιαεθ. e.g. 2 Chronicles 34:12
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (perhaps for יַחְתֶּה, יַחֲתֶה he (God) will snatch up)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יחד (yâchad) (H3161) — to join.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H3189 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יַ֣חַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:10 | 3 |
| יַ֥חַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:20 | 2 |
| וְ/יַ֣חַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:2 | 1 |
| יַ֔חַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:2 | 1 |
| יָֽחַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3189, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jahath). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Union. (1.) A son of Shimei, and grandson of Gershom (1 Chr. 23:10).
(2.) One of the sons of Shelomoth, of the family of Kohath (1 Chr. 24:22).
(3.) A Levite of the family of Merari, one of the overseers of the repairs of the temple under Josiah (2 Chr. 34:12).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(union).
+ Son of Libni, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. (1 Chronicles 6:20) (B.C. after 1706.) + Head of a later house in the family of Gershom, being the eldest son of Shimei, the son of Laadan. (1 Chronicles 23:10,11) + A man in the genealogy of Judah, (1 Chronicles 4:2) son of Reaiah ben-Shobal. + A Levite, son of Shelomoth. (1 Chronicles 24:22) + A Merarite Levite in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 34:12) (B.C. 623.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
broken in pieces; descending
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
