Bible Dictionary
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Jaakan
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaakan was an ancestor of the Bene-Jaakan and is identified with Jakan, a descendant of Ezer the Horite.
Jaakobah
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaakobah was a prince or leading descendant of Simeon.
Jaala
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaala was a Nethinim whose descendants returned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel. The name is also written Ja-alah.
Jaalah
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaalah was one of the families or persons whose descendants returned from the Babylonian captivity. The name means “wild goat.”
Jaalam
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaalam was the second son of Esau and Aholibamah and became a chief of an Edomite tribe.
Jaanai
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaanai was a chief man of the tribe of Gad.
Jaare-oregim
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaare-oregim is the name given in 2 Samuel 21:19 to a Bethlehemite associated with Elhanan. The wording is probably corrupt, since “oregim” means “weavers” and appears to have been repeated from the surrounding text; the parallel passage reads Jair.
Jaareoregim
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaareoregim is the name given in 2 Samuel 21:19 to a Bethlehemite and father of Elhanan. The parallel account in 1 Chronicles calls the father Jair and omits “Oregim,” suggesting a textual variation.
JAARESHIAH
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaareshiah was a Benjamite, called the son of Jeroham in 1 Chronicles 8:27. The meaning of his name is uncertain.
Jaasau
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaasau was an Israelite of the family of Bani who had married a foreign wife and renounced the marriage after the return from exile.
Jaasiel
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaasiel was a Benjamite leader and one of David’s warriors. He is probably the same man called Jasiel, a Mezobaite, in the list of David’s mighty men.
Jaaz-aniah
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaaz-aniah is the name of several men in the Old Testament, including a Rechabite leader, an idol-worshiper seen by Ezekiel, one of the men in Ezekiel’s temple vision, and a Judean captain after Jerusalem’s fall.
Jaazaniah
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaazaniah, also called Jezaniah or Azariah in related passages, was a Judean captain who joined Gedaliah and later went with the remnant of Judah to Egypt. The name is also borne by three other men mentioned in Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
Jaazer
Places & Geography - Old Testament
Jaazer was a city east of the Jordan in Gilead, assigned to Gad and afterward to the Merarite Levites. It was later mentioned in prophetic judgments against Moab.
Jaazer, Or Jazer
Places & Geography - Old Testament
Jaazer, or Jazer, was an Amorite town east of the Jordan that Israel captured after defeating Sihon. Its surrounding villages formed the land or district of Jazer, later allotted to Reuben and the Merarite Levites.
Jaaziah
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaaziah was a descendant or “son” of Merari the Levite. The wording of the genealogical passage is uncertain.
Jaaziel
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jaaziel was a Levite appointed by David to play instruments during the bringing of the ark to Jerusalem.
Jabal
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jabal was a son of Lamech and Adah and brother of Jubal. He is described as the father of those who live in tents and keep herds, representing an early pastoral way of life.
Jabbok
Places & Geography - Old Testament
The Jabbok was a major stream east of the Jordan, now called the Nahr ez-Zerqa. Jacob crossed it and wrestled there, and it later marked boundaries involving the Amorites, Ammonites, Reuben, and Gilead.
Jabesh
People & Groups - Old Testament
Jabesh is a shortened form of Jabesh-gilead, the town east of the Jordan. The name is also borne by the father of Shallum, king of Israel.
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