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Jashobeam in Naves Topical Bible

-1. One of David's warriors 2Sa 23:8; 1Ch 11:11; 27:2 -2. A Korhite Levite 1Ch 12:6...

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Jashub in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a returning; a controversy; a dwelling place...

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Javan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(clay). 1. A son of Japheth. Ge 10:2,4 Javan was regarded as the representative of the Greek race. The name was probably introduced into Asia by the Phoenicians, to whom the Ionians were naturally better known than any other of the Hellenic races, on account of their commercial activity and the high prosperity of their towns on the western co...

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Jeconiah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

preparation...

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Jarib in Hitchcock's Bible Names

fighting; chiding; multiplying; avenging...

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Jashobeam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(to whom the people turn), named first among the chief of the mighty men of David. 1Ch 11:11 (B.C. 1046.) He came to David at Ziklag. His distinguishing exploit was that he slew 300 (or 800,) 2Sa 23:8 men at one time....

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Jason in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-sun (Iason): A common name among the Hellenizing Jews who used it for Jesus or Joshua, probably connecting it with the Greek verb iashthai ("to heal"). (1) Son of Eleazar, sent (161 BC) by Judas Maccabeus with other deputies to Rome "to make a league of amity and confederacy" (1 Macc 8:17; Josephus, Ant, XII, x, 6), and perhaps to be ident...

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Javan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The fourth "son" of Japheth (Gen. 10:2), whose descendants settled in Greece, i.e., Ionia, which bears the name of Javan in Hebrew. Alexander the Great is called the "king of Javan" (rendered "Grecia," Dan. 8:21; 10:20; comp. 11:2; Zech. 9:13). This word was universally used by the nations of the East as the generic name of the Greek...

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Jedaiah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

je-da'-ya, je-di'-a: (1) (yedha`yah, "Yah knows"): (a) A priest in Jerusalem (1 Ch 9:10; 24:7). (b) Ezr 2:36 = Neh 7:39, where "children of Jedaiah" are mentioned = "Jeddu" in 1 Esdras 5:24. (c) Jedaiah is among "the priests and the Levites" that returned with Zerubbabel (Neh 11:10; 12:6,19). (d) Another priest of the same name (Neh 12:7,21). (e)...

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Jashen in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-shen, jash'-en (yashen, "asleep"(?)): Seemingly the father of some of David s thirty valiant men (2 Sam 23:32 f). The Massoretic Text reads "Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, Shammah the Hararite, .... " 1 Ch 11:33 f has Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite ....

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