Joh.

Proper noun

John (plural Johns)

1. A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.
   • John is a most excellent name, and Smith is a surname which is worthy of respect and honor, but wo to the man on whom they are conjoined! For John Smith to aspire to senatorial dignities or to the laurel of a poet is simply ridiculous. Who is John Smith? He is lost in the multitude of John Smiths...1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 114
   1. (informal) Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known.
      • a John Doe murder case; the dreaded Dear John letter; if we were to ask John Q. Public his opinion
   2. (informal) Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).
2. Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).
   • There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:6
3. The Gospel of St John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.

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   Joh.

4. One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).

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