Johanan

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Johanan
     whom Jehovah graciously bestows. (1.) One of the Gadite heroes
     who joined David in the desert of Judah (1 Chr. 12:12).
     
       (2.) The oldest of King Josiah's sons (1 Chr. 3:15).
     


       (3.) Son of Careah, one of the Jewish chiefs who rallied round
     Gedaliah, whom Nebuchadnezzar had made governor in Jerusalem (2
     Kings 25:23; Jer. 40:8). He warned Gedaliah of the plans of
     Ishmael against him, a warning which was unheeded (Jer. 40:13,
     16). He afterwards pursued the murderer of the governor, and
     rescued the captives (41:8, 13, 15, 16). He and his associates
     subsequently fled to Tahpanhes in Egypt (43:2, 4, 5), taking
     Jeremiah with them. "The flight of Gedaliah's community to Egypt
     extinguished the last remaining spark of life in the Jewish
     state. The work of the ten centuries since Joshua crossed the
     Jordan had been undone."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Johanan, who is liberal or merciful