JEHONATHAN . A more exact rendering of the name usually represented in English as Jonathan . In RV [Note: Revised Version.] this form occurs twice. 1. 2 Chronicles 17:8 one of the Levites sent out by Jehoshaphat with the Book of the Law to teach the people in the cities of Judah. 2. Nehemiah 12:18 Nehemiah 12:18 the head of the priestly family of Shemaiah in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua.