נְתַנְיָ֫הוּ
Nethaniah
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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 H5418 appears — 20 distinct verses across 4 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.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 25:23 נְתַנְיָ֡ה n Proper Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
- 2 Kings 25:25 נְ֠תַנְיָה n Proper But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 25:2 וּ/נְתַנְיָ֥ה conj + n Proper of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king.
- 1 Chronicles 25:12 נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ n Proper the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Jeremiah 15 verses
- Jeremiah 36:14 נְ֠תַנְיָהוּ n Proper Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
- Jeremiah 40:8 נְתַנְיָ֡הוּ n Proper then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
- Jeremiah 40:14 נְתַנְיָ֔ה n Proper and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them.
- Jeremiah 40:15 נְתַנְיָ֔ה n Proper Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
- Jeremiah 41:1 נְתַנְיָ֣ה n Proper Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
- Jeremiah 41:2 נְתַנְיָ֜ה n Proper Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
- Jeremiah 41:6 נְתַנְיָ֤ה n Proper Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
- Jeremiah 41:7 נְתַנְיָה֙ n Proper It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
- Jeremiah 41:9 נְתַנְיָ֖הוּ n Proper Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
- Jeremiah 41:10 נְתַנְיָ֔ה n Proper Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.
- Jeremiah 41:11 נְתַנְיָֽה n Proper But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
- Jeremiah 41:12 נְתַנְיָ֑ה n Proper then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
- Jeremiah 41:15 נְתַנְיָ֗ה n Proper But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
- Jeremiah 41:16 נְתַנְיָה֙ n Proper Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:
- Jeremiah 41:18 נְתַנְיָ֗ה n Proper because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.
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.
“Nethaniah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name נתניה (Nᵉthanyâh). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. It appears 20 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in 2 Kings 25:23. See 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5418 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 →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,513
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,513 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 15 verses 75%
- 2 Kings 2 verses 10%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 10%
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 20 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 17 verses · 85%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 15%
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).
- King James Version: Nethaniah 20×
- American Standard Version: Nethaniah 20×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nethaniah 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nethaniah 5×
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Renders H5418 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5418 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5418 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5418 across 5 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 5 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. נְתַנְיָ֫הוּ father of Jehudi Je 36:14. e.g. Jeremiah 36:14
- 2. נ׳ father of Ishmael Gedaliah’s murderer Je 40:8; 41:9 = נְתַנְיָה 2 K 25:23, 25; Je 40:14, 15; 41:1 + 9 times Je 41. e.g. Jeremiah 40:8
- 3. נְתַנְיָ֫הוּ Levite name:
- a. 2 Ch 17:8. e.g. 2 Chronicles 17:8
- b. 1 Ch 25:12 = נְתַנְיָה v 2. e.g. 1 Chronicles 25:12
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. (cf. GrayProp. N. 294), 𝔊 Ναθανιας;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נתן (nâthan) (H5414) — to give.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H5418 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְתַנְיָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 40:14 | 3 |
| נְתַנְיָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:15 | 2 |
| נְתַנְיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:7 | 2 |
| וּ/נְתַנְיָ֡הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 17:8 | 1 |
| וּ/נְתַנְיָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 25:2 | 1 |
| נְ֠תַנְיָה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 25:25 | 1 |
| נְ֠תַנְיָהוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 36:14 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:12 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 25:12 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:9 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֜ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:2 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֡ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 25:23 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֡הוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 40:8 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:1 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:6 | 1 |
| נְתַנְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5418, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nethaniah). 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
Given of Jehovah. (1.) One of Asaph's sons, appointed by David to minister in the temple (1 Chr. 25:2, 12).
(2.) A Levite sent by Jehoshaphat to teach the law (2 Chr. 17:8).
(3.) Jer. 36:14.
(4.) 2 Kings 25:23, 25.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(given of Jehovah).
+ The son of Elishama, and father of Ishmael who murdered Gedaliah. (2 Kings 25:23,25) He was of the royal family of Judah. (B.C. 620.) + One of the four sons of Asaph the minstrel. (1 Chronicles 25:12) (B.C. 1015.) + A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 17:8) (B.C. 912.) + The father of Jehudi. (Jeremiah 36:14) (B.C. 638.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the gift of the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 18 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 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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