Person New Testament
Jonam
Also known as Jonam =ESV, NIV; Jonan =KJV
Jonam, son of Eliakim, was an ancestor of Jesus Christ. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Luke 3:30.
Why it matters. An ancestor of Jesus
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Jonam
Jonam is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ recorded by Luke (Luk.3.30). He was the son of Eliakim and an ancestor of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Luke (1 verse)