Save Gender Feminine Usage Popular Culture Pronounced Pron. YO-shə-behl [key] Other Forms FormsIochabel Meaning & History From Ιωχαβέλῃ (Iochabele), the form of Yocheved used by the historian Josephus; also compare Iochabed. This is the name of the mother of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 movie The Ten Commandments.