Dictionary entry

Jobab

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jo'-bab (yobhabh, perhaps "howling"; Iobab):

(1) "Son" of Joktan (Ge 10:29;1Ch 1:23).

SeeTABLE OF NATIONS.

(2) An Edomite king (Ge 36:33,14;1Ch 1:44,45).

(3) King of Madon (Jos 11:1).

(4)1Ch 8:9; and (5)1Ch 8:18, Benjamites.

The name is confused with that of Job in Septuagint ofJob 42:17.