Jethlah
Suspended; high, a city on the borders of Dan (Josh. 19:42).
Jethro
His excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro’s flocks. While the Israelit…
Jetur
An enclosure, one of the twelve sons of Ishmael (Gen. 25:15).
Jeuel
Snatched away by God, a descendant of Zerah (1 Chr. 9:6).
Jeush
Assembler. (1.) The oldest of Esau’s three sons by Aholibamah (Gen. 36:5, 14, 18). (2.) A son of Bilhan, grandson of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10). (3.) A Levite, one of the sons of Shimei (1 Chr. 23:10, 11…
Jeuz
(counsellor), head of a Benjamite house. (1 Chronicles 8:10)
Jew
The name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or to the separate kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 16:6; 25:25; Jer. 32:12; 38:19; 40:11; 41:3), in contradi…
Jewel
[Stones, Precious, PRECIOUS]
Jewels
JEWELS. This term is applied to ornaments made of the precious metals and used to adorn the person. We find them among the presents which the servants of Abraham made to Rebekah and her family when t…
Jewess
A woman of Hebrew birth, as Eunice, the mother of Timothy (Acts 16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5), and Drusilla (Acts 24:24), wife of Felix, and daughter of Herod Agrippa I.
Jewish
of or belonging to Jews; an epithet applied to their rabbinical legends. (Titus 1:14)
Jewry,
JEWRY, a word elsewhere rendered "Judah" and "Judaea." It occurs once in the 0.T., Dan 5:13, where it might be rendered "Judah," and several times in the Apocryphal and N.T. books. See Judah and Juda…
Jews
JEWS. The word first occurs in 2 Kgs 16:6, and denotes the Judaeans, or men of Judah, in contradistinction from the seceding ten tribes, who retained the name of Israel. The name Israelites was appli…
Jezaniah
(whom Jehovah hears), the son of Hoshaiah the Maachathite, and one of the captains of the forces who had escaped from Jerusalem during the final attack of the beleaguering army of the Chaldeans. (B.C…
Jezebel
Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage wit…
Jezer.
JE'ZER. (frame), one of the sons of Naphtali. Gen 46:24; Num 26:49; 1 Chr 7:13.
Jezerites
JE'ZERITES, THE, the descendants of the above. Num 26:49.
Jezerites, The
JE'ZERITES, THE, the descendants of the above. Num 26:49.
Jeziah
(whom Jehovah expiates), a descendant of Parosh, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:25)
Jeziel
Assembled by God, a son of Azmaveth. He was one of the Benjamite archers who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3).
Jezliah
(whom God will preserve), a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:18) (B.C. 588.)
Jezneel
seed of God
Jezoar
(whiteness), the son of Helah, one of the wives of Asher. (1 Chronicles 4:7)
Jezrahiah
(produced by Jehovah), a Levite, the leader of the choristers at the solemn dedication of the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 12:42) (B.C. 446.)
Jezreel
God scatters. (1.) A town of Issachar (Josh. 19:18), where the kings of Israel often resided (1 Kings 18:45; 21:1; 2 Kings 9:30). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu executed his dr…
Jezreel, Blood Of
The murder perpetrated here by Ahab and Jehu (Hos. 1:4; comp. 1 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 9:6-10).
Jezreel, Day Of
The time predicted for the execution of vengeance for the deeds of blood committed there (Hos. 1:5).
Jezreel, Ditch Of
(1 Kings 21:23; comp. 13), the fortification surrounding the city, outside of which Naboth was executed.
Jezreel, Fountain Of
Where Saul encamped before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 29:1). In the valley under Zerin there are two considerable springs, one of which, perhaps that here referred to, “flows from under a sort of c…
Jezreel, Portion Of
The field adjoining the city (2 Kings 9:10, 21, 36, 37). Here Naboth was stoned to death (1 Kings 21:13).