Jonathan

From the Hebrew name יְהוֹנָתָן (Yehonaṯan), contracted to יוֹנָתָן (Yonaṯan), meaning "Yahweh has given" [1] [2] [3] , derived from the roots יְהוֹ (yeho) referring to the Hebrew God and נָתַן (naṯan) meaning "to give" [4] [5] . According to the Old Testament, Jonathan was the eldest son of Saul. His relationship with his father was strained due to his close friendship with his father's rival David. Along with Saul he was killed in battle with the Philistines.As an English name, Jonathan did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), who wrote Gulliver's Travels and other works.

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1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3129, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3129.
2. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 80.
3. Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 180.
4. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3068, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3068.
5. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h5414, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h5414.

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