"Jebediah" meaning in All languages combined

See Jebediah on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Forms: Jebediahs [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪə Etymology: Apparently an alteration of Jedediah or Jedidiah, perhaps influenced by Obadiah. All early attestations are mistaken references to persons actually named Jedediah or Jedidiah. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Jebediah (plural Jebediahs)
  1. A male given name. Categories (topical): English given names, English male given names
    Sense id: en-Jebediah-en-name-yDfLNrGi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1854, The Charter and By-laws of the Locust Gap Improvement Company, with Reports on Their Coal Land, Locust Gap Improvement Company, page 26",
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