Jochebed
יוֹכֶ֫בֶדStrong’s H3115yokheved (yo-khe-ved)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yokheved is the Hebrew word usually translated “jochebed”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.”
Meaning
- A woman of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.6.20
How it's translated
- jochebed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
יוֹכֶ֫בֶד yokheved · Jochebed
A woman of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.6.20; daughter of: Levi (H3878); sister of: Gershon (H1648), Kohath (H6955) and Merari (H4847); married to Amram (H6019); mother of: Moses (H4872), Aaron (H0175) and Miriam (H4813) § Jochebed = "Jehovah is glory" the daughter of Levi, wife and at the same time aunt of Amram, and the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.