Iōánnēs — G2491

G2491 · Greek — Ἰωάννης

Pronunciation: ee-o-an'-nace

Definition

masculine proper noun

Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites

  1. John the Baptist, the son of Zacharias the priest and Elisabeth, the forerunner of Christ. By order of Herod Antipas he was cast into prison and afterward bebeaded
  2. John the apostle, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of James the elder
    1. Ap. Johannes as above Schriften
  3. the father of the apostle Peter
  4. a certain man ἐκ γένους ἀρχιερατικοῦ, a member of the Sanhedrin
  5. John surnamed Mark, the companion of Barnabas and Paul
  6. John, according to the testimony of Papias in Eusebius, h. e. 3, 39 , a disciple of Christ and afterward a Christian presbyter in Asia Minor, whom not a few at the present day, following the opinion of Dionysius of Alexandria regard as the author of the Apocalypse, and accordingly, esteem him as an eminent prophet of the primitive Christians and as the person referred to in

Usually translated as

John

Origin

of Hebrew origin (H3110)

Hebrew equivalents

Occurrences

Iōánnēs occurs 133 times in 130 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (26), Mark (25), Luke (30), John (19), Acts (24), Galatians (1), Revelation (5)

Strong's Lexicon — I