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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.

Parents
Eliakim
Children
Joseph

Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

Record type: Person. FaithGraph explanations on this page are editorial and are not Scripture.