The earliest record of the name Jesiah is found in the Bible

Bible

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Referred to as Isshiah and then translated to Jessiah and finally shortened to Jesiah. He was said to be an ally of David at Ziklag

Ziklag

Ziklag is the Biblical name of a town that was located in the Negev region in the south of what was the Kingdom of Judah.-Identification:The exact location of Ziklag has not been identified with any certainty....

. (Bible, 1 Chr. 12:6. B.C. 1055). He was also known as the second son of Uzziel

Uzziel

According to the Torah, Uzziel |El]] is my strength or God is my strength) was the father of Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri, and was a son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, consequently being the brother of Amram and uncle of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses...

, the son of Kohath

Kohath

According to the Torah, Kohath was one of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Kohathites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times; in some apocryphal texts such as the Testament of Levi, and the Book of Jubilees, Levi's wife, Kohath's mother, is named as...

. (1 Chronicles 23:20).

The name Jesiah means "Sprinkling of the Lord" and "whom Jehovah

Jehovah

Jehovah is an anglicized representation of Hebrew , a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton , the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible....

lends". Jesiah also means "The Lord Exists". Jesiah is very often spelt Josiah.

External links

• bible.org Jesiah
• bible.org Isshiah
• http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Jesiah