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Jonathan

For other uses, see Jonathan (disambiguation). For the Israeli moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
, see Yonatan, Golan Heights
Yonatan, Golan Heights

Yonatan is a moshav located in the central Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav is affiliated with the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement, and is under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council....
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Not to be confused with John

Jonathan (in , Standard
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
Yonatan / Y?honatan Tiberian
Tiberian vocalization

Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century....
/ ; "Whom YHWH gave", "God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
's gift", "Gift of God" or "God has given") is a common male given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
. The first known Jonathan
David and Jonathan

David and Jonathan were heroic figures of the ancient Israel, whose intimate relationship was recorded favourably in the Old Testament books of Samuel....
was a son of King Saul in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
, a close friend of David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
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Alternative spellings of Jonathan include Jonathon, Johnathan, Jonatan, Jonothon, Jonothan, Johnathon, and Yonatan (a common name in Hebrew).

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For other uses, see Jonathan (disambiguation). For the Israeli moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
, see Yonatan, Golan Heights
Yonatan, Golan Heights

Yonatan is a moshav located in the central Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav is affiliated with the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement, and is under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council....
.
Not to be confused with John

Jonathan (in , Standard
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
Yonatan / Y?honatan Tiberian
Tiberian vocalization

Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century....
/ ; "Whom YHWH gave", "God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
's gift", "Gift of God" or "God has given") is a common male given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
. The first known Jonathan
David and Jonathan

David and Jonathan were heroic figures of the ancient Israel, whose intimate relationship was recorded favourably in the Old Testament books of Samuel....
was a son of King Saul in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
, a close friend of David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
.

Alternative spellings of Jonathan include Jonathon, Johnathan, Jonatan, Jonothon, Jonothan, Johnathon, and Yonatan (a common name in Hebrew). Biblical
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
variants include Yehonathan, Y'honathan, Yhonathan, Yonatan, Yonaton, Yonoson, Yeonoson or Yehonasan. In Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, "Yoni" is a common nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
for Yonatan (Jonathan) in the same way Johnny
Johnny

Johnny or Johnnie is the diminutive form of the common English people name John ....
is for Jonathan
Jonathan

Jonathan is a common male given name. The first known David and Jonathan was a son of King Saul in the Hebrew Bible, a close friend of David.Alternative spellings of Jonathan include Jonathon, Johnathan, Jonatan, Jonothon, Jonothan, Johnathon, and Yonatan ....
in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
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Nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
s include Jon, John, Jonn, Yoni, Yonny, Jonny, Jona, Jonnie, Jonty, and Jonno (all with spelling variations), as well as Jack
Jack (name)

Jack is a male given name, although in very rare cases it can be used as a female given name, and sometimes as a surname. In English it is the diminutive form of the name John , though it is also often given as a proper name in its own right....
, Jay, Jake, Jon Jon, and less frequently, Nathan or Nate.

Etymologically
Etymology

Etymology is the study of the roots and history of words; and how their form and meaning have changed over time.In languages with a long detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture to culture over time....
, Jonathan is not a variation of John
John (name)

John is an English language masculine given name....
, but a longer version of Nathan. Names with similar meanings include Theodore
Theodore

Theodore is an English masculine given name. It comes from the Greek language name Te?d???? meaning "gift of god" . Theodore may refer to:...
in Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
and Bogdan
Bogdan

Bogdan or Bohdan is a Slavic languages masculine name meaning "given by God". This name is a Slavic variant of the Greek name Theodore. Other names with similar meaning include Hebrew Nathanael and Jonathan , Latin Deodatus and French Dieudonn?....
/Bozhidar in Slavonic.

The name day
Name day

A name day is a tradition in many countries in Europe and Latin America of celebrating on a particular day of the year associated with the one's given name....
for Jonathan is 1 March in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, 22 December in Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, and 29 December in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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