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Jozabad in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

joz'-a-bad (yozabhadh, "Yahweh has bestowed"): (1) A Gederathite, and one of David's recruits at Ziklag (1 Ch 12:4 (Hebrew 5)). He is named with the Benjamites, but possibly he was a native of the town Gedara in Southern Judah. See Curtis, Chronicles, 196. (2), (3) Two Manassite captains who joined David at Ziklag (1 Ch 12:20 (Hebrew 21)). (4) ...

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Jonah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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Jonathan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

whom Jehovah gave, the name of fifteen or more persons that are mentioned in Scripture. The chief of these are, (1.) A Levite descended from Gershom (Judg. 18:30). His history is recorded in 17:7-13 and 18:30. The Rabbins changed this name into Manasseh "to screen the memory of the great lawgiver from the stain of having so unworthy an ap...

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Joshua in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

josh'-u-a ((a) yehoshua`, (b) yehoshua`, "Yahweh is deliverance" or "opulence"; compare JESHUA; Iesous): (1) Joshua the son of Nun; the name has the Hebrew form (a) above in Dt 3:21; Jdg 2:7; elsewhere the form (b), except in Neh 8:17, where it is of the form yeshua` (See JESHUA); compare also Nu 13:8,16; Dt 32:44. See following article. (2) In...

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Jozabad in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Two men of Manasseh 1Ch 12:20 -2. Two Levites 2Ch 31:13; 35:9 -3. Son of Jeshua Ezr 8:33 -4. A priest Ezr 10:22 -5. Three Levites Ezr 10:23; Ne 8:7; 11:16 -6. One of David's famous warriors 1Ch 12:4...

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Jonas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

jo'-nas (Ionas; the King James Version, Jonan): (1) Son of Eliasib (1 Esdras 9:1). (2) Corresponds in 1 Esdras 9:23 to "Eliezer" in Ezr 10:23. (3) The prophet Jonah (2 Esdras 1:39; Tobit 14:4,8)....

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Jonathan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

given of God...

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Joseph in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Jacob Ge 30:24 Personal appearance of Ge 39:6 His father's favorite child Ge 33:2; 37:3,4,35; 48:22; 1Ch 5:2; Joh 4:5 His father's partiality for, excites the jealousy of his brethren Ge 37:4,11,18-28; Ps 105:17; Ac 7:9 His prophetic dreams of his fortunes in Egypt Ge 37:5-11 Sold as a slave into Egypt Ge 37:27,28 Is falsely...

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Joseph in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(increase). 1. The elder of the two sons of Jacob by Rachel. He was born in Padan-aram (Mesopotamia), probably about B.C. 1746. He is first mentioned when a youth, seventeen years old. Joseph brought the evil report of his brethren to his father, and they hated him because his father loved him more than he did them, and had shown his preferen...

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Josiah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

healed by Jehovah, or Jehovah will support. The son of Amon, and his successor on the throne of Judah (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chr. 34:1). His history is contained in 2 Kings 22, 23. He stands foremost among all the kings of the line of David for unswerving loyalty to Jehovah (23:25). He "did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and wal...

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