Jaakan
He twists, one of the sons of Ezer, the son of Seir the Horite (1 Chr. 1:42).
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Easton's Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, M. G. Easton, 1897.
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Jaakobah
Heel-catcher, a form of the name Jacob, one of the descendants of Simeon (1 Chr. 4:36).
Jaala
A wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity (Neh. 7:58).
Jaalam
Concealer, the second of Esau’s three sons by Aholibamah (Gen. 36:5, 14).
Jaanai
Mourner, one of the chief Gadites (1 Chr. 5:12).
Jaare-oregim
Forests of the weavers, a Bethlehemite (2 Sam. 21:19), and the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath. In 1 Chr. 20:5 called JAIR.
Jaasau
Fabricator, an Israelite who renounced his Gentile wife after the Return (Ezra 10:37).
Jaasiel
Made by God, one of David’s body-guard, the son of Abner (1 Chr. 27:21), called Jasiel in 1 Chr. 11:47.
Jaaz-aniah
Heard by Jehovah. (1.) The son of Jeremiah, and one of the chief Rechabites (Jer. 35:3).(2.) The son of Shaphan (Ezek. 8:11).(3.) The son of Azur, one of the twenty-five men see...
Jaazer
He (God) helps, a city of the Amorites on the east of Jordan, and assigned, with neighbouring places in Gilead, to Gad (Num. 32:1, 35; Josh. 13:25). It was allotted to the Merar...
Jaaziah
Comforted by Jehovah, a descendant of Merari the Levite (1 Chr. 24:26,27).
Jaaziel
Comforted by God, a Levitical musician (1 Chr. 15:18).
Jabal
A stream, a descendant of Cain, and brother of Jubal; “the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle” (Gen. 4:20). This description indicates that he led a wandering life.
Jabbok
A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below th...
Jabesh
Dry. (1.) For Jabesh-Gilead (1 Sam. 11:3,9,10).(2.) The father of Shallum (2 Kings 15:10, 13, 14), who usurped the throne of Israel on the death of Zachariah.
Jabesh-Gilead
A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mention...
Jabez
Affiction. (1.) A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded that “God granted him that which he requested” (1 Chr. 4:9, 10).(2.) A place inhabited by several families of the s...
Jabin
Discerner; the wise. (1.) A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Josh. 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had ent...
Jabneel
Built by God. (1.) A town in the north boundary of Judah (Josh. 15:11), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the modern Yebna, 11 miles south of Jaffa. After the fall of Jeru...
Jabneh
Building, (2 Chr. 26:6), identical with Jabneel (Josh. 15:11).
Jachan
Mourner, one of the chief Gadite “brothers” in Bashan (1 Chr. 5:13).
Jachin
Firm. (1.) The fourth son of Simeon (Gen. 46:10), called also Jarib (1 Chr. 4:24).(2.) The head of one of the courses (the twenty-first) of priests (1 Chr. 24:17).(3.) One of th...
Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon’s temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubits high and twelve in circumference (Jer. 52:21, 23; 1 Kings 7:17-21). They h...
Jacinth
Properly a flower of a reddish blue or deep purple (hyacinth), and hence a precious stone of that colour (Rev. 21:20). It has been supposed to designate the same stone as the li...
Jacob
One who follows on another’s heels; supplanter, (Gen. 25:26; 27:36; Hos. 12:2-4), the second born of the twin sons of Isaac by Rebekah. He was born probably at Lahai-roi, when h...
Jacob’s Well
(John 4:5, 6). This is one of the few sites in Palestine about which there is no dispute. It was dug by Jacob, and hence its name, in the “parcel of ground” which he purchased f...
Jaddua
Known. (1.) One of the chiefs who subscribed the covenant (Neh. 10:21).(2.) The last high priest mentioned in the Old Testament (Neh. 12:11, 22), sons of Jonathan.