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Jonathan

Mentioned 597–588 BC traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 2 verses, first in Jeremiah 37:15.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

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2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Jonathan: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 622–563 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Jonathan’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Jonathan in 2 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Jeremiah2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBJonathan 124
KJVJonathan 121
ASVJonathan 122

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Jeremiah2 verses
  1. 37:15

    The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

  2. 37:20

    But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”