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Jonathan is a common given name. People with the name Jonathan Amaral, known as Jonathan Gaming (born 2002), Indian professional esports player; Jonathan Antoine (born 1995), English classically trained tenor; Jonathan Aspropotamitis (born 1996), Australian professional footballer; Jonathan Asselin (born 1958), Canadian equestrian
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given".The name is spelled Jón in Iceland and on the Faroe Islands. In the Nordic countries , it is derived from Johannes .
John (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ n / JON) is a common male name in the English language ultimately of Hebrew origin. The English form is from Middle English Ioon, Ihon, Iohn, Jan (mid-12c.), itself from Old French Jan, Jean, Jehan (Modern French Jean), [2] from Medieval Latin Johannes, altered form of Late Latin Ioannes, [2] or the Middle English personal name is directly from Medieval Latin, [3] which is ...
This was proposed by historian Leo Africanus (1488-1554), who suggested the Greek word phrike (φρίκη, meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix "a-", thus indicating a land free of cold and horror. However, as the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the 10th century, it is unlikely this is the origin.
Yohanan יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān), sometimes transcribed as Johanan, is a Hebrew male given name that can also appear in the longer form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhôḥānān), meaning "YHWH is gracious". The name is ancient, recorded as the name of Johanan, high priest of the Second Temple around 400 BCE.
David and Jonathan by Rembrandt, c. 1642. The relationship between David and Jonathan is mainly covered in the First Book of Samuel of the Hebrew Bible.The episodes belong to David's ascent to power, commonly regarded as one of the sources of the Deuteronomistic history and its later additions.
Targum Onkelos (1st century CE) gives the meaning of the name as "the man to whom hidden things are revealed"; [1] Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, "the man who revealeth mysteries"; [2] Josephus [3] (c. CE 94), "a finder of mysteries". Rashi (11th–12th century CE) in his commentary on the Torah gives the meaning "explainer of hidden things". [4]
The Talmud attributes its authorship to Jonathan ben Uzziel, a pupil of Hillel the Elder, in Megillah 3a:4. [a] According to this source, it was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel "from the mouths of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi," implying that it was based on traditions derived from the last prophets. The additional statements that, on this ...