Hebrew word · H3298

יַעֲרֶשְׁיָה

veya'areshyah

Jaareshiah

A name ending in -yah (YHWH). The first part is obscure. One proposal links it to a root meaning 'to plant' (known in Arabic), giving something like 'Yah plants'. Others suspect the spelling was damaged in copying. No explanation is secure.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.27;

son of: Jeroham (H3395H);

brother of: Shamsherai (H8125), Shehariah (H7841), Athaliah (H6271H), Elijah (H0452H) and Zichri (H2147J)

§ Jaresiah = "whom Jehovah nourishes"

a Benjamite, one of the descendants of Jehoram

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 8:27

Range of meaning

A name ending in -yah (YHWH). The first part is obscure. One proposal links it to a root meaning 'to plant' (known in Arabic), giving something like 'Yah plants'. Others suspect the spelling was damaged in copying. No explanation is secure.

Against the English

BSB, WEB, YLT, NIV and ESV: 'Jaareshiah'. KJV: 'Jaresiah'. These are spelling differences only.

Used elsewhere in the period

Found only in this verse. The Greek Septuagint transliterates it with a somewhat different spelling, which is common for rare names.

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 8:27 וְיַעֲרֶשְׁיָ֧ה and Jaareshiah

    Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.

    Here: A personal name found only here in the Bible. The ending -yah is a short form of God's name (YHWH), so the name says something about Israel's God, though what the first part means is uncertain. The 'and' at the front links this verse to the names in verse 26: the list of Jeroham's sons runs across both verses.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.