Jedediah Explained

Jedidiah
Gender:	male
Meaning:	beloved of the Lord, friend of God
Origin:	Hebrew
Related Names:	Jed, Jedd, Jeddy, Jededish, Jedi, Jedidias, Jehdai

Jedediah (Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה) or Jedidiah is a Hebrew male given name, which is derived from the name Yedidyah, meaning "beloved of Jah". In the Hebrew Bible, Jedidiah (Jeddedi in Brenton's Septuagint Translation) was the second or "blessing" name given by God through the prophet Nathan in infancy to Solomon, second son of King David and Bathsheba.^[1]

The name may also refer to:

People

• Jedediah Berry (born 1977), American writer
• Jedediah Bila (born 1979), American writer and commentator
• Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772), English mathematician
• Jedediah Slason Carvell (1832–1894), Canadian businessman and politician
• Jedediah Dupree (born 1979), American fencer and fencing coach
• Jedediah Foster (1726–1779), American judge
• Jedediah M. Grant (1816–1856), American religious leader
• Jedediah Herrick (1780–1847), American general
• Jedediah Hinkle, American politician
• Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899), American educator and topographer
• Jedediah Huntington (1743–1818), American general
• Jedediah Vincent Huntington (1815–1862), American clergyman and novelist
• Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826), American geographer
• Jedidiah Norzi (1560–1626), Italian rabbi
• Jedediah Peck (1748–1821), American politician
• Jedediah Purdy (born 1974), American law professor and writer
• Jedediah Sanger (1751-1829), American politician
• Jedediah Smith (1799–1831), American trader and explorer
• Jedediah K. Smith (1770–1828), American politician
• Jedidiah Strutt (1726–1797), English inventor

Fiction

• Jedediah, fictional cowboy diorama piece, played by Owen Wilson in Night at the Museum
• Jedediah Leland, character played by Joseph Cotten in the film Citizen Kane
• Jedediah Cooper, main character in the film Hang 'Em High
• Jedediah the Pilot in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Jedediah Shine, police officer in UK TV series Ripper Street
• Levi Jedediah Calder, one of the main characters of novel Unwind
• Jedidiah Sawyer, a character known as Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film franchise
• Jebediah Brown, a character known in the Call of Duty franchise in the Zombies storyline of certain games
• Jebediah Kerman, one of the default astronauts in the spaceflight simulator game Kerbal Space Program and considered to be the franchise's chief mascot

See also

• Jed (given name)
• Yedidia, a variant

Notes and References

1. Samuel 12:25