Entry № 4021 · Hebrew origin

Hamutal Hamutal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-MOO-tahl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Father-in-law is dew (Jeremiah's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "father-in-law is dew (jeremiah's mother)".

Hamutal (חֲמוּטַל) means "father-in-law is dew" in Hebrew. In 2 Kings 23:31, Hamutal was the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah and the wife of King Josiah — mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah of Judah.

Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.

Father-in-law is dew. Mother of two kings of Judah.

The name in its native script.

חֲמוּטַל
Transliteration
Ḥămûṭal
Pronunciation
/ həˈmuː.tæl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hamutal stands.

Hamutal does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hamutals before her.

Real people
Hamutal
Mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah.
In fiction
Hamutal
2 Kings 23:31.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Hamutal.

The number behind Hamutal.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hamutal reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.