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Jeshua in Hitchcock's Bible Names

same as Joshua...

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Jesus Christ in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

LITERATURE Jesus Christ: The Founder of the Christian religion; the promised Messiah and Saviour of the world; the Lord and Head of the Christian church. I. The Names. 1. Jesus: (Iesous) is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew "Joshua" (yehoshua`), meaning "Yahweh is salvation." It stands therefore in the Septuagint and Apocrypha for "Joshua," an...

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Jether in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(his excellence). 1. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses. Ex 4:18 (B.C. 1530.) 2. The first-born of Gideon's seventy sons. Jud 8:20 (B.C. 1256.) 3. The father of Amasa, captain-general of Absalom's army. (B.C. 1023.) Jether is another form of ITHRA. 2Sa 17:25 He is described in 1Ch 2:17 as an Ishmaelite, which again is more likely to be corr...

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Jethro in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

jeth'-ro, je'-thro (yithro, "excellence," Ex 3:1; 4:18b; 18:1-12 (in 4:18a, probably a textual error, yether, "Iether," the King James Version margin, the Revised Version margin); Septuagint always Iothor): The priest of Midian and father-in-law (chothen) of Moses. 1. His Relation to Reuel and Hobab: It is not easy to determine the relation of ...

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Jesharelah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

upright towards God, the head of the seventh division of Levitical musicians (1 Chr. 25:14)....

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Jesher in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(uprightness), one of the sons of Caleb the son of Hezron by his wife Azubah. 1Ch 2:18 (B.C. before 1491)....

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Jether in Easton's Bible Dictionary

surplus; excellence. (1.) Father-in-law of Moses (Ex. 4:18 marg.), called elsewhere Jethro (q.v.). (2.) The oldest of Gideon's seventy sons (Judg. 8:20). (3.) The father of Amasa, David's general (1 Kings 2:5, 32); called Ithra (2 Sam. 17:25). (4.) 1 Chr. 7:38. (5.) 1 Chr. 2:32; one of Judah's posterity. (6.) 1 Chr. 4:17....

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Jethro in Naves Topical Bible

-Called RAGUEL and REUEL -(A priest of Midian) -Moses spent forty years of exile with, and married his daughter Ex 2:15-22; 3:1; 4:18; Nu 10:29...

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Jesse in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = "wealthy"; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277 f, conjectures yesh yah, "Yahweh exists"; Wellhausen (1 Sam 14:49) explains it as 'abhishay (see ABISHAI); Iessai; Ruth 4:17,22; 1 Sam 16; 17; 20; 22; 25:10; 2 Sam 20:1; 23:1; 1 Ki 12:16; 1 Ch 10:14; 12:18; Ps 72:20; Isa 11:1,10 ( = Rom 15:12...

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Jesus in Naves Topical Bible

-HISTORY OF Genealogy of Mt 1:1-17; Lu 3:23-38 Facts before the birth of The angel Gabriel appears to Mary (at Nazareth) Lu 1:26-38 Mary visits Elisabeth (at Hebron?) Lu 1:39-56 Mary's magnificat (at Hebron?) Lu 1:46-55 An angel appears to Joseph concerning Mary (at Nazareth) Mt 1:18-25 Birth of (at Bethlehem) Lu 2:1-7 Angels appear t...

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