jochebed Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
jochebed in Easton's Bible Dictionary
Jehovah is her glory, the wife of Amram, and the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses (Num. 26:59). She is spoken of as the sister of Kohath, Amram's father (Ex. 6:20; compare 16, 18; 2:1-10).
jochebed in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(whose glory is Jehovah), the wife and at the same time the aunt of Amram and the mother of Moses and Aaron. #Ex 2:1; 6:20; Nu 26:59|
jochebed in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
JOCH'EBED (whose glory is Jehovah), the mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam, was the wife and aunt of Amram, and the daughter of Levi. Ex 6:20; Num 26:69.
jochebed in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
= "Jehovah her glory". Aunt and wife of Amram(Exodus 2:1; 6:20; Numbers 26:59). But Jochebed could not be strictly daughter of Levi, for three centuries must have intervened between Levi's death and Moses' birth. Amram and Jochebed were descendants of Levi, seven or eight generations removed. In Moses' time the Kohathites, from Kohath Levi's son, were divided into four branches, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, amounting to 8,600 males, of whom the Amramites were 2,000. Amram Kohath's son is therefore not Amram Moses' father. Omission of links in Scriptural genealogies is frequent.