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# יְהוֹשָׁפָט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3092

**Jehoshaphat. Compare** — used 82 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jehoshaphat. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3092/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְהוֹשָׁפָט: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3092/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ἰωσαφαω, Ἰωσαφατ (י׳ hath judged, cf. אֱלִישָׁפָט, שְׁפַטְיָהוּ & reff.)— יְהוֹ׳ (so all except 5. & 6) king of Judah, son of Asa 1 K 15:24; 22:2 + 21 times 1 K; 2 K 1:17; 3:1, 7, 11, 12(×2), 14; 8:16(×2), 12:19; 1 Ch 3:10; 2 Ch 17:1 + 40 times 2 Ch. father of Jehu king of Israel 2 K 9:2, 14. chronicler under David & Solomon, son of Ahilud 2 S 8:16; 1 K 4:3; 1 Ch 18:15; also 2 S 20:24 (𝔊L Σαφαν). one of Sol.’s 12 officers who provided victuals for the royal household 1 K 4:17 (𝔊L Ἰωασαφατ). יוֹ׳ one of David’s heroes 1 Ch 11:43. יוֹ׳ a priest & trumpeter in David’s time 1 Ch 15:24. in n.pr.loc. עֵמֶק יְהוֹשָׁפָט Jo 4:2, 12, symbolical name of a valley near Jerusalem, place of ultimate judgment.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jehoshaphat (69); of Jehoshaphat (12); \[was\] Jehoshaphat (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.17/#tree)

יְהוֹשָׁפָ֥ט בֶּן־פָּר֖וּחַ בְּיִשָׂשכָֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* Jehoshaphat the.son of.Paruah in Issachar

*JPS 1917:* Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

[1 Kings 22:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.45/#tree)

וַיַּשְׁלֵ֥ם יְהוֹשָׁפָ֖ט עִם־מֶ֥לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.peace Jehoshaphat with the.king of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3092.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3092/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).