given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
, which is derived from the name ''Yedidyah'', meaning "beloved of
Jah
Jah or Yah (, ''Yāh'') is a short form of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of ''Jah'' is , even though the letter J here transliter ...
Nathan
Nathan or Natan may refer to:
People and biblical figures
*Nathan (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name
* Nathan (surname)
*Nathan (prophet), a person in the Hebrew Bible
*Nathan (son of David), a biblical figu ...
in infancy to
Solomon
Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ...
, second son of
King David
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...
and
Bathsheba
Bathsheba (; , ) was an Kings of Israel and Judah, Israelite queen consort. According to the Hebrew Bible, she was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, with whom she had all of her five children. Her status as the mother of Solomon ...
Jedediah Bila
Jedediah Louisa Bila (born January 29, 1979) is an American podcast host and former television host. She is known for her time as a co-host on the daytime talk show '' The View'' from 2016 to 2017 and as an anchor on the weekend edition of the mo ...
(born 1979), American writer and commentator
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Jedediah Buxton
Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772) was a noted England, English mental calculator, born at Elmton, near Creswell, Derbyshire, Creswell, in Derbyshire.W. W. Rouse Ball (1960) ''Calculating Prodigies'', in Mathematical Recreations and Essays, Macmillan ...
(1707–1772), English mathematician
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Jedediah Slason Carvell
Jedediah Slason Carvell (16 March 1832 – 14 February 1894) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and office holder.
Accomplishments
From 1877 to 1878, he was the sixth Mayor of Charlottetown. He was also Spain's vice-consul in Prince ...
(1832–1894), Canadian businessman and politician
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Jedediah Dupree
William Jedediah "Jed" Dupree (born October 7, 1979) is an American men's foil fencer. He was the 2001 NCAA Champion in individual men's foil, and the 2002 and 2005 National Champion in individual foil. He represented the United States at the ...
(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
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Jedediah Hinkle
Jedediah Hinkle is an American politician and taxidermist. A Republican, he is a member of the Montana House of Representatives. He previously served in the Montana Senate
The Montana State Senate is the upper house of the Montana Legislatur ...
, American politician
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Jedediah Hotchkiss
Jedediah Hotchkiss (November 30, 1828 – January 17, 1899), known most frequently as Jed, was a teacher and the most famous cartography, cartographer and topographer of the American Civil War. His detailed and accurate maps of the Shenandoah V ...
(1828–1899), American educator and topographer
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Jedediah Huntington
Jedediah (or Jedidiah) Huntington (4 August 1743 – 25 September 1818), was an American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts.
Early life
Huntington was born ...
Jedidiah Morse
Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761June 9, 1826) was an American geographer and preacher whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned ...
(1761–1826), American geographer
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Jedidiah Norzi Jedidiah Solomon ben Abraham Norzi (1560–1626) () was a Rabbi and exegete, best known for his work ''Minchat Shai''.
Born at Mantua, he studied under Moses Cases, and received his semicha, rabbinical ordination in 1585. Toward the beginning of th ...
(1560–1626), Italian rabbi
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Jedediah Peck
Jedediah Peck (January 28, 1748 – August 15, 1821) was an American farmer, surveyor, American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War soldier, and New York State legislator described as a father of the common school system of the State of New ...
(1748–1821), American politician
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Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Spenser Purdy (born 29 November 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. In 2022 he became the
Raphael Lemkin Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he teaches courses on P ...
(born 1974), American law professor and writer
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Jedediah Sanger
Jedediah Sanger (February 28, 1751 – June 6, 1829) was the founder of the town of New Hartford, New York, United States. He was a native of Sherborn, Massachusetts, and the ninth child of Richard and Deborah Sanger, a prominent colonial New E ...
(1751-1829), American politician
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Jedediah Smith
Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartography, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western Unit ...
(1799–1831), American trader and explorer
* Jedediah K. Smith (1770–1828), American politician
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Jedidiah Strutt
Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England.
Strutt and his brother-in-law William Woollat developed an attachment to the stocking frame that allowed th ...
(1726–1797), English inventor
Fiction
* Jedediah, fictional cowboy diorama piece, played by
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has shared writing and acting credits on the films '' Bottle Rocket'' (1996), '' Rushmore'' (1998), and ''T ...
in ''
Night at the Museum
''Night at the Museum'' is a 2006 fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an en ...
''
* Jedediah Leland, character played by
Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1939) an ...
in the film ''
Citizen Kane
''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's List of directorial debuts, first feature film. ...
''
* Jedediah Cooper, main character in the film ''
Hang 'Em High
''Hang 'Em High'' is a 1968 American revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg. It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching; Inger Stevens as a widow who ...
''
* Jedediah the Pilot in ''
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (also known as ''Mad Max 3'') is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie and written by Terry Hayes and Miller. It is the third installment in the ''M ...
''
* Jedediah Shine, police officer in UK TV series ''
Ripper Street
''Ripper Street'' is a British mystery drama television series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, and MyAnna Buring. It begins in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack t ...
''
* Levi Jedediah Calder, one of the main characters of novel '' Unwind''
* Jedidiah Sawyer, a character known as
Leatherface
Leatherface is a character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (franchise), ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' series. He first appeared in ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974) as the mentally disabled member of a family of deranged Human cannibalis ...
in ''
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, an ...
'' 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
''Kerbal Space Program'' is a 2015 Space flight simulation game, space flight simulation video game developed by Mexican studio Squad for Linux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. In the game, players dir ...
'' and considered to be the franchise's chief mascot
See also
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Jed (given name)
Jed is a masculine given name or nickname, usually of Jedediah.
People Politicians
* Jed Johnson (Oklahoma) (1888–1963), politician from Oklahoma
* Jed Johnson, Jr. (1939–1993), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson
* Jed L ...