List of Bible names that start with J and their meaning

This article contains a list of Bible names that start with J and their meaning in English transcription. If you are looking for a cool Christian Boy name that starts with J for your male child, then you are in the right place. The vast collection of names was created to provide you with assistance regarding the naming process for your newborn.

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List of Bible names that start with J and their meaning

1. Jaakan: Tribulation, the labor he twists, he shall surround, intelligent
2. Jaakobah: Supplanter, deceiver, the heel
3. Jaala: Ascending, a little doe or goat, wild goat
4. Jaalam: Hidden, young man, heir, whom God hides, concealer, he will be hidden
5. Jaana: Answering, afflicting, making poor, whom Jehovah answers, mourner, Jehovah answers
6. Jaasau: Doing, my doing, whom Jehovah made, fabricator, Jehovah makes,
7. Jaasiel: God’s work, whom God comforts, made by God, God is the maker
8. Jaasu: Created
9. Jaazaniah: – Whom the Lord will hear, whom Jehovah hears, Jehovah does hear, may God hear’
10. Jaazah: Jaazar, Jazer, assistance, helper, Jehovah helps
11. Jaaziah or Jaaziel: The strength of Jehovah, sprinkling of the Lord, whom Jehovah expidates – God consoles or determines, may God strengthen,
12. Jaaziel: God is determining or consoling, may God strengthen,
13. Jabal: Which glides away, stream, “the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle” (Genesis 4:20). This description indicates that he led a wandering life. A shepherd a river, moving or which glides away, stream
14. Jabbok: Evacuation, dissipation, wrestling
15. Jabesh: Dryness, confusion, shame, a dry place, dry,
16. Jabez: Sorrow, trouble, he makes sorrow or height, sorrow,
17. Jabin: Jabneh, whom God observes, discerner, the wise, God discerns or intelligent, he understands
18. Jabneel: Building of God, built by God
19. Jachan: Wearing out, oppressing, afflicting or troublous, affliction,
20. Jachin: He that strengthens and makes steadfast, he shall establish, he does establish or founding, established
21. Jacob: “Supplanter” or “He who grabs the heel” (referring to his holding onto his twin brother Esau’s heel at birth).
22. Jada: Knowing, wise
23. Jadau: His hand, his confession, favorite or friend
24. Jadon: He will judge, thankful, he that rules or abids,
25. Jaddua: Known, very knowing,
26. Jael: A goat, agile
27. Jagur: Husbandman, stranger
28. Jah: The everlasting abbreviation of Jehovah
29. Jahaleel: Praising God, the light of God
30. Jahath: Broken in pieces, descending, revival, or grasping
31. Jahaz: Jahazah, quarrel, dispute
32. Jahaziah: Jahzeiah, the vision of the Lord, Jehovah reveals, Jehovah sees,
33. Jahaziel: Seeing God, whom God watches over, beheld by God, God sees or reveals
34. Jahdai: Guide or directs
35. Jahdiel: The unity, or sharpness, or revenge, of God, union of God or God makes glad
36. Jahdo  – I alone, his joy, his sharpness of wit, his newness, union,
37. Jahleel: – Waiting for, or beseeching, or hope in, God, God waits or God does grievously afflict
38. Jahmai: – Warm, making warm, Jehovah protects,
39. Jahzeel: Jahziel, God hasteth, or divideth, God apportions or distributes,
40. Jahzerah: Jehovah protects or may he lead back,
41. Jair: My light, who diffuses light, Jehovah enlightens, arouses or who diffuses light
42. Jairus: He will enlighten or diffuse light
43. Jakan: Same as Achan
44. Jakeh: Pious or hearkening
45. Jakim: Rising, confirming, establishing
46. Jalon: Tarrying, murmuring, abiding, lodger
47. Jambres: Poverty, bitter, a rebel
48. James: Same as Jacob, the Greek form of Jacob, supplanter (to take the place of another, as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like)
49. Jamin: Right hand, south wind
50. Jamlech: Reigning, asking counsel
51. Janna: Jannes, who speaks or answers, afflicted, poor
52. Janoah: Janohah, resting, tarrying, deriving, rest
53. Janum: Sleeping
54. Japhet: Enlarged, fair, persuading
55. Japheth: Same as Japhet
56. Japhia: Enlightening, appearing
57. Japhlet: Japhleti, delivered, banished
58. Japho: Fairness, comeliness
59. Jarah: A wood, honeycomb, watching closely
60. Jareb: A revenger
61. Jared: A ruling, commanding, coming down
62. Jaresiah: The bed of the Lord, the Lord hath taken away, poverty, whom Jehovah nourishes
63. Jarib: Fighting, chiding, multiplying, avenging
64. Jarmuth: Bearing, or seeing, or throwing down, death
65. Jarvah: Breathing, or making, a sweet smell
66. Jashem: Jashen, ancient, sleeping
67. Jasher: Righteous, upright
68. Jashobeam: The people sitting, or captivity of the people
69. Jashub: A returning, a controversy, a dwelling place
70. Jasiel: The strength of God, whom God made
71. Jason: He that cures, He that will cure, one who will heal
72. Jathniel: Gift of God, whom God gives
73. Jattir: A remnant, excellent
74. Javan: Deceiver, one who makes sad
75. Jazeel: Strength of God
76. Jazer: Assistance, helper, Jehovah helps
77. Jaziz: Brightness, departing
78. Jearim: A leap, woods
79. Jeaterai: Whom Jehovah searching out, leads, whom Jehovah leads
80. Jeberechiah: Speaking well of, or kneeling to, Jehovah, whom Jehovah blesses
81. Jebus: Treading under foot, manger
82. Jebusi: Trodden underfoot, mangers
83. Jecamiah: Resurrection, or confirmation, or revenge, of the Lord, whom Jehovah gathers
84. Jecoliah: Perfection, or power, of Jehovah, able through Jehovah, The same as Jecholiah: strong through Jehovah
85. Jeconiah: Preparation, or stability, of Jehovah
86. Jed, God’s friend
87. Jedaiah: The hand of the Lord, confessing Jehovah
88. Jedeiah: One Lord, the joy of Jehovah
89. Jediael: Knowledge, of God
90. Jedidah: Well-beloved, amiable
91. Jedidiah: Beloved of the Lord, beloved of Jehovah
92. Jediel: The knowledge, or renewing, of God
93. Jeduthun: His law, giving praise
94. Jeezer: Island of help
95. Jegar: Sahadutha, heap of witness
96. Jehaleleel: Jehalelel, praising God, clearness of God
97. Jehaziel: Same as Jahaziel
98. Jehdeiah: One Lord, the joy of the Lord,
99. Jeheiel: God liveth
100. Jehezekel: Strength of God
101. Jehiah: The Lord liveth, Jehovah lives
102. Jehiskiah: Phe strength, the strength, or taking, of the Lord
103. Jehoadah: Passing over, the testimony of the Lord, whom Jehovah adorns
104. Jehoaddan: Pleasure, or time, of Jehovah
105. Jehoahaz: Possession of Jehovah
106. Jehoash: Fire of Jehovah, Jehovah, given
107. Jehohanan: Grace, whom Jehovah gave, a name of which John is the contraction.
108. Jehoiachin: Preparation, or strength, of Jehovah
109. Jehoiada: Knowledge of Jehovah
110. Jehoiakim: Avenging, establishing, or resurrection, of Jehovah
111. Jehoiarib: Fighting, or multiplying, of Jehovah
112. Jehonadab: Jonadab, free giver, liberality
113. Jehonathan: Altation of Jehovah
114. Jehoshaphat: The Lord is judge, whom Jehovah judges, Jehovah, judged
115. Jehosheba: Fullness, Jehovah’s oath, Jehovah, swearing
116. Jehoshua: Same as Joshua
117. Jehovah: Self, subsisting, I am, the eternal living one, to be, exist, to be, to become, I am who am- hath sent me, I am who am with you,
118. Jehovah-Jireh: the Lord will provide, Jehovah will see, i.e., will provide
119. Jehovah-Nissi: the Lord my banner, Jehovah my banner
120. Jehovah-Shalom: the Lord send peace, Jehovah send peace
121. Jehovah-Shammah: Jehovah is there, the Lord is there
122. Jehovah-Tsidkenu: Jehovah our righteousness, the Lord our righteousness
123. Jehozabad: Jehovah’s dowry, having a dowry Jehovah, given, whom Jehovah gave
124. Jehu: Himself who exists
125. Jehubbah: Hiding, binding
126. Jehucal: Mighty, perfect, and wasted
127. Jehud: Jehudi, praising, conferring
128. Jehudijah: The praise of the Lord
129. Jehush: Keeping counsel, fastened
130. Jekabzeel: The congregation of God
131. Jekamean: The people shall arise
132. Jekamiah: Establishing, or revenging, of Jehovah, whom Jehovah gathers
133. Jekuthiel: Hope, or congregation, of Jehovah
134. Jemima: Handsome as the day
135. Jemuel: God’s day, son of God
136. Jephthah: Whom God sets free
137. Jephunneh: He that beholds
138. Jerah: The moon, month, smelling sweet
139. Jerahmeel: The mercy, or the beloved, of God
140. Jered: Ruling, coming down
141. Jeremai: My height, throwing forth waters
142. Jeremiah: Exaltation of Jehovah, raised up or appointed by Jehovah, whom Jehovah has appointed
143. Jeremoth: Eminences, one that fears death
144. Jeriah: Fear, or throwing down, of Jehovah
145. Jerebai: Highting, chiding, multiplying
146. Jericho: His moon, his month, his sweet smell
147. Jeriel: Fear, or vision of God
148. Jerijah: Same as Jeriah
149. Jerimoth: He who fears or rejects death
150. Jerioth: Kttles, breaking asunder
151. Jeroboam: He who opposes the people
152. Jeroham: High, merciful, beloved
153. Jerubbaal: Let Baal contend with him
154. Jerubbesheth: Let the idol of confusion defend itself
155. Jeruel: Fear, or vision of God
156. Jerusalem: Vision of peace, the habitation of peace,
157. Jerusha: Banished, possession, inheritance
158. Jesaiah: Health, or salvation, of Jehovah, salvation of Jehovah
159. Jeshebeab: Sitting, or captivity, of the father
160. Jesher: Right, singing
161. Jeshimon: Solitude, desolation
162. Jeshishai: Ancient, rejoicing exceedingly
163. Jeshohaia: Jehovah pressing, the meditation of God
164. Jeshua: Same as Joshua
165. Jesiah: Sprinkling of the Lord
166. Jesimiel: Naming or astonishment of God
167. Jesse: Gift, oblation, one who is
168. Jesui: Even,tempered, flat country
169. Jesu: Savior -deliverer, The Greek form of the name Joshua or Jeshua, a contraction of Jehoshua – that is, help of Jehovah or saviour. Latin: Jesus, Iesus, Iesu, Josue. Greek: Ieous from Hebrew Yeshua. Also means safety, victory, and who’s help is Jehovah or it may be from the verb “Yasha”, “to save,” and = Jehovah Savior, or simply Savior, a late form of Hebrew “yehosua”, the meaning of which is “YHWH is salvation” or “YHWH saves/has saved.” Online definition of “savior.” Latin term drove out Old English “hæland” which means “healer” as the preferred descriptive term for Jesus.
170. Jether: He that excels
171. Jetheth: Giving
172. Jethlah: Hanging up, heaping up
173. Jethro: His excellence, his posterity
174. Jetur: Order, succession, mountainous
175. Jeuel: God hath taken away, God heaping up
176. Jeush: Jeuz, he that is devoured
177. Jew: Same as Judah, a man of Judea,[ then  name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or to the separate kingdom of Judah ( 2 Kings 16:6 , 25:25 , Jeremiah 32:12 , 38:19 , 40:11 , 41:3 )
178. Jezaniah: Nourishment, or weapons, of Jehovah, whom Jehovah hears
179. Jezebel: Not exalted.
180. Jezer: Island of help and power
181. Jeziah: Jeziel, sprinkling of Jehovah, whom Jehovah expiates
182. Jezoar- Slear, white
183. Jezrahiah: Jehovah arises, brightness of Jehovah, produced by Jehovah, a leader of the choir
184. Jezree: Seed of God
185. Jibsam: Their drought, their confusion
186. Jidlaph: He who distills water
187. Jimnah: Right hand, numbering, preparing
188. Jiphtah: Opening
189. Jiphthael: God opens
190. Joab: Paternity, voluntary
191. Joachim: Rising or establishing of Jehovah
192. Joah: Fraternity, brother of Jehovah
193. Joahaz: Apprehending, possessing, seeing
194. Joanna: Grace or gift of Jehovah, whom Jehovah has graciously given, grace or gift of God
195. Joash: Who despairs or burns
196. Joatham: Same as Jotham
197. Job: He that weeps or cries, persecuted
198. Jobab: Sorrowful, hated
199. Jochebed: Glorious, honorable
200. Joed: Witnessing, robbing, passing over
201. Joel: He that wills or commands
202. Joelah: Lifting up, profiting, and taking away slander
203. Joezer: He that aids
204. Jogbehah: An exalting, high
205. Jogli: Passing over , turning back, rejoicing
206. Joha (or ”Juha”): Who enlivens or gives life
207. Johanan: Who is liberal or merciful, whom Jehovah graciously bestows a gift or grace of God, Jehovah is or has been gracious.
208. John: The grace or mercy of the Lord, Jehovah’s gift: the same name as Johanan, a contraction of Jehohanan
209. Joiarib: Chiding, or multiplying, of Jehovah
210. Jokdeam: Trookedness, or burning, of the people
211. Jokim: That made the sun stand still
212. Jokmeam: Confirmation, or revenge, of the people
213. Jokneam: Possessing, or building up, of the people
214. Jokshan: An offense, hardness, a knocking
215. Joktan: Small dispute, contention, disgust
216. Jonadab: Who gives liberally
217. Jonah: or Jonas, a dove, he that oppresses, destroyer
218. Jonan: A Dove, multiplying of the people
219. Jonathan: Given of God
220. Joppa: Beauty, comeliness, Beauty
221. Jorah: Jorai, showing, casting forth, a cauldron
222. Joram: To cast, elevate or elevated
223. Jordan: The river of judgment, Some translate it as “the descender,” from the Semitic yrd, “to descend”
224. Jorim: He that exalts the Lord
225. Josabad: Having a dowry
226. Josaphat: Same as Jehoshaphat
227. Jose: Raised, who pardons
228. Joseph: Increase, addition, remover or increaser, increase, may God add
229. Joses: Same as Jose, exalted
230. Joshah: Being, forgetting, owing
231. Joshaviah: The seat, alteration, or captivity of Jehovah
232. Joshbekesha: It is requiring or beseeching
233. Joshua: A savior, a deliverer
234. Josiah: The Lord burns, the fire of Jehovah
235. Josibiah: The seat, or captivity of Jehovah
236. Josiphiah: Increase of Jehovah, Jehovah’s finishing
237. Jotham: The perfection of Jehovah
238. Jothath: Jothatha, his goodness
239. Jozabad: Same as Josabad
240. Jozachar: Remembering the male sex
241. Jubal: He that runs, a trumpet
242. Jucal: Mighty, perfect
243. Judah: The praise of the Lord, confession, praised, celebrated, praise,
244. Judas: Jude, same as Judah
245. Judaea: Judea, same as Judah
246. Judith: Same as Judah
247. Julia: Downy, soft and tender hair
248. Julius: Same as Julia
249. Junia:  Youth
250. Jushabhesed: Dwelling,place, change of mercy
251. Justus: Just or upright, just
252. Juttah: Turning away