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Jushab-hesed (proper name: 'kindness is returned'; son of Zerubbabel)

Jehoshaphat (proper name: 'YHWH has judged'; king of Judah and other individuals)

Jeziel/Jezuel (proper name, variant spellings; one of David's warriors at Ziklag)

Jaazaniah (proper name: 'Yahweh hears'; multiple individuals, also contracted to Jezaniah)

Chubbah (proper name; descendant of Asher, with Ketiv/Qere variant)

Jehdeyahu (proper name: 'may Yahweh give joy'; Levite and royal officer names)

Jehieli (patronymic: 'of the Jehiel family'; Levitical family designation)

Jahleel (proper name: 'wait for God!' or 'God waits'; son of Zebulun)

roebuck (animal: a deer species, possibly gazelle, permitted as clean food)

Jahzeel (proper name: 'God apportions/divides'; son of Naphtali)

Juttah (proper name: town in Judah's hill country, assigned to priests)

scab, scurf (skin disease: eruptive condition that disqualified priests from service)

the sea (Aramaic noun used in Daniel's vision of beasts from the great sea)

Jemuel (proper name; son of Simeon, called Nemuel in other passages)

the right (adjective: Ketiv form meaning 'right-hand' or 'on the right side')

Jaminite (gentilic: 'belonging to the clan of Jamin'; also used for Benjamite)

Janoah (proper name: town on Ephraim's border, possibly meaning 'resting place')

Janum (proper name: town in Judah's hill country, with Ketiv/Qere textual variants)

Iddo (proper name: prophet/seer in Chronicles, with Ketiv/Qere textual variants)

Jair (proper name: father of Elhanan, with Ketiv/Qere variants)

Jaaziyahu (proper name: Levite name, possibly corruption of Uzziyahu)

counselors (Aramaic plural noun: royal advisors to the Persian king)

Jeush (proper name: 'he comes to help'; son of Esau and other individuals)

Jaala (proper name: head of returning exiles, with variant spelling Jaalah)

ostriches (plural noun: large flightless birds, with Ketiv/Qere textual variant)

Jarah (proper name: descendant of Saul, possibly corrupt text for Jehoaddah)

Jaare-Oregim, father of Elhanan mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:19; likely a scribal error

Yaasu/Yaasai, an Israelite who married a foreign wife during Ezra's reforms (Ezra 10:37)

Yaasiel, the name of two men: a warrior of David (1 Chr 11:47) and a Benjamite ruler (1 Chr 27:21)

A reduplicative adjective meaning "very pretty" or "beautiful," used of Egypt as a heifer in Jeremiah 46:20

Brightness, splendor; used of the glory of the prince of Tyre in Ezekiel 28:7, 17

Iphtah-el, a valley forming a boundary between Zebulun and Asher (Joshua 19:14, 27)

Adjective meaning "going forth," used with a pronominal suffix to mean "those who came from his loins"

A casting (of metal); technical term for the molten bronze casting process used in temple construction

Obedience; used with both subjective genitive (obedience of peoples) and objective genitive (obedience to mother)

Burning; used figuratively for divine judgment in Isaiah 10:16

Yaqim, the name of two men: a Benjamite (1 Chr 8:19) and a Levite (1 Chr 24:12)

Aramaic adjective meaning honorable or difficult, depending on context

Yeqamam, a Levite mentioned in 1 Chronicles 23:19 and 24:23

Yokmeam/Jokmeam, a city in northern Israel (1 Kgs 4:12) and a Levitical city of refuge in Ephraim (1 Chr 6:68)

Yokte'el, two distinct locations: a town in Judah's Shephelah (Josh 15:38) and a renamed Petra (2 Kgs 14:7)

Yiriyyah, a military officer during Jeremiah's time who arrested the prophet (Jer 37:13-14)

Jareb, an epithet for an Assyrian king in Hosea 5:13 and 10:6; possibly means "contender" or "great king"

Yerusha/Yerushah, mother of King Jotham, with variant spellings in 2 Kings 15:33 and 2 Chronicles 27:1

Yerah, son of Joktan in the Table of Nations (Gen 10:26; 1 Chr 1:20)

Aramaic noun for "month"; appears in Ezra 6:15 and Daniel 4:29

The Jerahmeelites, a clan or tribe in southern Judah mentioned in 1 Samuel 27:10 and 30:29

Yarcha, an Egyptian slave who married into Sheshan's family (1 Chr 2:34-35)

Possession; used twice in Numbers 24:18 in Balaam's oracle about Edom and Seir becoming Israel's possession

Ishbi-benob, a Philistine giant who nearly killed David (2 Sam 21:16); textually problematic