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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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Jashobeam in Easton's Bible Dictionary

dweller among the people; or to whom the people turn, the Hachmonite (1 Chr. 11:11), one of David's chief heroes who joined him at Ziklag (12:6). He was the first of the three who broke through the host of the Philistines to fetch water to David from the well of Bethlehem (2 Sam. 23:13-17). He is also called Adino the Eznite (8)....

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Jason in Naves Topical Bible

-A Christian at Thessalonica Ac 17:5,6,7,9 -Probably Paul's kinsman, mentioned in Ro 16:21...

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Javan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

deceiver; one who makes sad...

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Jedaiah in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Descendant of Simeon 1Ch 4:37 -2. A returned exile Ne 3:10 -3. A priest of the captivity 1Ch 9:10; 24:7; Ezr 2:36; Ne 7:39 -4. A priest who lived in Jerusalem after the return of the captivity Ne 11:10; 12:6,19; Zec 6:10,14 -5. Another priest, who returned from Babylon with Nehemiah Ne 12:7,21...

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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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