Given name
Jezaniah
“Yah harkens”
Jezaniah is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewיאזניה
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Jezaniah means “Yah harkens.”
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Where it comes from
Jezaniah is a biblical name from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew verb azen (אזן), “to balance or listen to.”
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In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Jezaniah appears in Jeremiah 40:8.
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Jezaniah’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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>99% girls