Jaala
A wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity (Neh. 7:58).
Jaala, Jaalah
JAA'LA, JAA'LAH (a wild shegoat), one of the descendants of Solomon's slaves who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon to Jerusalem. Ezr 2:56, Neh 7:58.
Jaalah
(wild goat). (Ezra 2:56)
Jaalam
Concealer, the second of Esau’s three sons by Aholibamah (Gen. 36:5, 14).
Jaanai
Mourner, one of the chief Gadites (1 Chr. 5:12).
Jaare-oregim
Forests of the weavers, a Bethlehemite (2 Sam. 21:19), and the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath. In 1 Chr. 20:5 called JAIR.
Jaareoregim
(forests of the weavers), (2 Samuel 21:19) a Bethlehemite, and the father of Elhanan who slew Goliath. In the parallel passage, (1 Chronicles 20:5) Jair is found instead of Jaare, and Oregim is omitt…
Jaasau
Fabricator, an Israelite who renounced his Gentile wife after the Return (Ezra 10:37).
Jaasiel
Made by God, one of David’s body-guard, the son of Abner (1 Chr. 27:21), called Jasiel in 1 Chr. 11:47.
Jaaz-aniah
Heard by Jehovah. (1.) The son of Jeremiah, and one of the chief Rechabites (Jer. 35:3). (2.) The son of Shaphan (Ezek. 8:11). (3.) The son of Azur, one of the twenty-five men seen by Ezekiel (11:1) …
Jaazah
Jaazar, helper
Jaazaniah
(whom Jehovah hears).
Jaazer,
JAA'ZER, and JA'ZER (Jehovah helps), a city of Gilead, east of the Jordan, which was conquered and assigned to Gad and to the Levites. Num 21:32; Num 32:1; Josh 21:39. In the time of David it was hel…
Jaazer, Or Jazer
(Jehovah helps), a town on the east of Jordan, in or near to Gilead. (Numbers 32:1,3; 1 Chronicles 26:31) We first hear of it in possession of the Amorites, and as taken by Israel after Heshbon, and …
Jaaziah
Comforted by Jehovah, a descendant of Merari the Levite (1 Chr. 24:26, 27).
Jaaziel
Comforted by God, a Levitical musician (1 Chr. 15:18).
Jabal
A stream, a descendant of Cain, and brother of Jubal; “the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle” (Gen. 4:20). This description indicates that he led a wandering life.
Jabbok
A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee. It r…
Jabesh,
JA'BESH, and JA'BESH-GIL'EAD (dry Gilead), a city east of the Jordan; destroyed by the Israelites, Jud 21:8-14; delivered from Nahash by Saul, 1 Sam 11:1-11, and in gratitude therefor its people brou…
Jabesh-gilead
A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mentioned in connection with …
Jabez
Affiction. (1.) A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded that “God granted him that which he requested” (1 Chr. 4:9, 10). (2.) A place inhabited by several families of the scribes (1 Chr. 2:55).
Jabiiv
JA'BIIV (whom he-i.e. God-observes). King of Hazor, a northern district of Canaan. Josh 11:1. He attempted by a formidable alliance to oppose the progress of Joshua. He and his allies were utterly de…
Jabin
Discerner; the wise. (1.) A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Josh. 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederac…
Jabneel
Built by God. (1.) A town in the north boundary of Judah (Josh. 15:11), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the modern Yebna, 11 miles south of Jaffa. After the fall of Jerusalem (A.D. 70), it be…
Jabneh.
JAB'NEH. See Jabneel.
Jachan
Mourner, one of the chief Gadite “brothers” in Bashan (1 Chr. 5:13).
Jachin
Firm. (1.) The fourth son of Simeon (Gen. 46:10), called also Jarib (1 Chr. 4:24). (2.) The head of one of the courses (the twenty-first) of priests (1 Chr. 24:17). (3.) One of the priests who return…
Jachin And Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon’s temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubits high and twelve in circumference (Jer. 52:21, 23; 1 Kings 7:17-21). They had doubtless a symboli…
Jachinites
JA'CHINITES, THE, the descendants of Jachin, son of Simeon. Num 26:12.
Jachinites, The
JA'CHINITES, THE, the descendants of Jachin, son of Simeon. Num 26:12.