Smith's Bible Dictionary

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JADDUA

(known).Son and successor in the high priesthood of Jonathan or Johanan. He is the last of the high priests mentioned in the Old Testament, and probably altogether the latest na...

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JADON

(judge), the Meronothite, who assisted to repair the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:7) (B.C. 446.)

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JAEL

(mountain goat), the wife of Heber the Kenite. (B.C. 1316.) In the headlong rout which followed the defeat of the Canaanites by Barak, at Megiddo on the plain of Esdraelon, Sise...

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JAGUR

(lodging),a town of Judah, one of those farthest to the south, on the frontier of Edom. (Joshua 15:21)

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JAH

(Jehovah), the abbreviated form of Jehovah, used only in poetry. It occurs frequently in the Hebrew, but with a single exception, (Psalms 68:4) is rendered "Lord" in the Authori...

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JAHATH

(union).Son of Libni, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. (1 Chronicles 6:20) (B.C. after 1706.)Head of a later house in the family of Gershom, being the eldest son of Shimei, ...

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JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH

(trodden down). Under these four forms is given in the Authorized Version the name of a place which in the Hebrew appears as Yahats and Yahtsah. At Jahaz the decisive battle was...

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JAHAZA

(trodden down). (Joshua 13:18) [JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH]

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JAHAZAH

(trodden down). (Joshua 21:36; Jeremiah 48:21) [JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH]

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JAHAZIEL

(whom God watches over)One of the heroes of Benjamin who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:4) (B.C. 1055.)A priest in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 16:6)A Kohathite L...

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JAHDAI

(whom Jehovah directs), a man who appears to be thrust abruptly into the genealogy of Caleb, as the father of six sons. (1 Chronicles 2:47)

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JAHDIEL

(whom Jehovah makes joyful), a chieftain of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24) (B.C. 320.)

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JAHDO

(united), a Gadite, (1 Chronicles 5:14) son of Buz and father of Jeshishai.

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JAHLEEL

(hoping in Jehovah), the third of the three sons of Zebulun, (Genesis 46:14; Numbers 26:26) founder of the family of Jahleelites. (B.C. 1706.)

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JAHMAI

(whom Jehovah guards), a man of Issachar, one of the heads of the house of Tolah. (1 Chronicles 7:2) (B.C. 1491)

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JAHNZIAH

(whom Jehovah watches over), son of Tikvah, apparently a priest. (Ezra 10:15)

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JAHZAH

(trodden down). (1 Chronicles 6:78) [JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH]

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JAHZEEL

(whom God allots), the first of the four sons of Naphtali, (Genesis 46:24) founder of the family of the Jahzeelites. (Numbers 26:48) (B.C. 1306.)

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JAHZERAH

(whom God leads back), a priest of the house of Immer. (1 Chronicles 9:12)

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JAHZIEL

(whom God allots), the same as JAHZEEL. (1 Chronicles 7:13)

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JAIR

(enlightener).A man who on his father’s side was descended from Judah, and on his mother’s from Manasseh. (B.C. 1451.) During, the conquest he took the whole of the tract of Arg...

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JAIRITE

(descendant of Jair). The IRA THE JAIRITE was a priest (Authorized Version "chief ruler") to David (2 Samuel 20:26)

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JAIRUS

(whom God enlightens).A ruler of a synagogue, probably in some town near the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. (Matthew 9:18; Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41) (A.D. 28.)(Esther 11:2) [J...

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JAKAMEAN

(who gathers the people together), a Levite in the time of King David; fourth of the sons of Hebron, the son of Kohath. (1 Chronicles 23:19; 24:23) (B.C. 1014.)

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JAKAN

(sagacious), son of Ezer the Horite. (1 Chronicles 1:42) The same as JAAKANJAAKAN. [And see AKAN]

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JAKEH

(pious). [PROVERBS, BOOK OF, BOOK OF]

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JAKIM

(whom God sets up).Head of the twelfth course of priests in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 24:12) (B.C. 1014.)A Benjamite, one of the Bene-Shimhi. (1 Chronicles 8:19) (B.C. 5...