Skip to content
EntityQ1686136· pop 5· linked from 19 articles

Jedediah, or Jedidiah () is a Hebrew male given name, which is derived from the name Yedidia, meaning "beloved of Jah". In the Hebrew Bible, Jedidiah (Jeddedi in Brenton's Septuagint Translation) was the second or blessing name given by God through the prophet Nathan in infancy to Solomon, second son of King David and Bathsheba.

Wikidata facts

Show 8 more facts
native label
Jedediah
Soundex
J330
Cologne phonetics
022
Caverphone
YTT111
writing system
Latin script
Commons category
Jedediah (given name)
language of work or name
English language
nickname
Jed

via Wikidata · CC0

~2 min read

Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • People
  • Fictional characters
  • See also
  • References

Jedediah, or Jedidiah () is a Hebrew male given name, which is derived from the name Yedidia, meaning "beloved of Jah". In the Hebrew Bible, Jedidiah (Jeddedi in Brenton's Septuagint Translation) was the second or blessing name given by God through the prophet Nathan in infancy to Solomon, second son of King David and Bathsheba.

==People== Jedediah Berry (born 1977), American writer Jedediah Bila (born 1979), American writer and commentator Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772), English mathematician Jedediah Slason Carvell (1832–1894), Canadian businessman and politician Jedediah Dupree (born 1979), American fencer and fencing coach Jedediah Foster (1726–1779), American judge Jedediah M. Grant (1816–1856), American religious leader Jedediah Herrick (1780–1847), American general Jedediah Hinkle, American politician Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899), American educator and topographer Jedediah Huntington (1743–1818), American general Jedediah Vincent Huntington (1815–1862), American clergyman and novelist Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826), American geographer Jedidiah Norzi (1560–1626), Italian rabbi Jedediah Peck (1748–1821), American politician Jedediah Purdy (born 1974), American law professor and writer Jedediah Sanger (1751-1829), American politician Jedediah Smith (1799–1831), American trader and explorer Jedediah K. Smith (1770–1828), American politician Jedidiah Strutt (1726–1797), English inventor

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jedediah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 4 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0