Josaphat

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Contracted form of JEHOSHAPHAT used in some English versions of the New Testament.

JEHOSHAPHAT   male   Biblical
Means "YAHWEH has judged" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament he is the fourth king of Judah, noted for having a generally peaceful and prosperous reign.
YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
EQUIVALENTS
BIBLICAL GREEK: Iosaphat
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Yehoshafat
BIBLICAL LATIN: Iosaphat
BIBLICAL: Jehoshaphat
POLISH: Jozafat
OTHER FORMS
THEOLOGY: Yahweh