Johanan is a Hebrew name meaning 'the LORD is gracious'. Other forms of the name include John and Yochanan. Several people in the Hebrew Bible are given the name Johanan: A Johanan, son of Kareah, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety, after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor.

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  • Johanan is a Hebrew name meaning 'the LORD is gracious'. Other forms of the name include John and Yochanan. Several people in the Hebrew Bible are given the name Johanan: A Johanan, son of Kareah, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety, after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor. He had earlier (at least according to the account in the book of Jeremiah), tried to warn Gedaliah of the plot of Ishmael son of Nethaniah to assassinate him, a plot which was apparently instigated by Baalis, king of Ammon, and which Gedaliah, to his cost, refused to believe. After the assassination of Gedaliah, Johanan ben Kareah leads the army against Ishmael, and fights him at Gibeon, securing the release of a large number of Israelite captives. Johanan, son of Jojada, is a high priest mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. He is the fourth in the line of high priests after Jeshua, who returned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel. He is also called Jonathan in verse 11, and Josephus gives his name as Ἰωάννης (Joannes), which is the Greek equivalent of Johanan. Johanan, the high priest, is also mentioned in the Elephantine Papyri, a contemporary collection of Jewish writing dating from the fifth century BC.
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  • Johanan is a Hebrew name meaning 'the LORD is gracious'. Other forms of the name include John and Yochanan. Several people in the Hebrew Bible are given the name Johanan: A Johanan, son of Kareah, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety, after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor.
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