Given name
Jozafat
“Yahweh has judged”
Jozafat is a given name from Latin. It is used in Polish.
Original Hebrewיהושפט
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jozafat goes back to Latin Iosaphat, meaning “Yahweh has judged.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From Latin Iosaphat, from Ancient Greek Ἰωσαφάτ, from Hebrew יהושפט.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Jozafat’s family of names
In Polish usage, Jozafat has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form JOSAFAT. In Polish usage, Jozafat has a conventional equivalent in the German form JOSAPHAT. In Polish usage, Jozafat has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form GIOSAFAT.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Jozafat has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Jozafat comes from · 1 name
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jozafat
- Josaphat Bulhak1758–1838
- Yosafat HoveraUkrainian Greek Catholic priestborn 1967
- Jozafat OhryzkoPolish lawyer, journalist, editor, publisher, a senior financial official in the Russian ministry and freedom fighter, held for years in Russian prisons as a political prisoner1827–1890
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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