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Smith's Bible Dictionary
•A Benjamite, son of Jesaiah. (Nehemiah 11:7)
•One of two persons—Ithiel and Ucal— to whom Agur ben-Jakeh delivered his discourse. (Proverbs
30:1) (B.C. about 900.)
Ithmah
(bereavedness), a Moabite, one of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46)
Ithnan
(given), one of the towns in the extreme south of Judah. (Joshua 15:23) No trace of its existence
has yet been discovered.
Ithra
(excellence), an Israelite, (2 Samuel 17:25) or Ishmaelite, (1 Chronicles 2:17) the father of
Amasa by Abigail, David’s sister. (B.C. before 1023.)
Ithran
(excellence).
•A son of Dishon, a Horite, (Genesis 36:26; 1 Chronicles 1:41) and probably a phylarch of a tribe
of the Horim. (Genesis 36:30) (B.C. about 1800.)
•A descendant of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:30-40)
Ithream
(abundance of people), son of David, born to him in Hebron, and distinctly specified as the
sixth, and as the child of Eglah, David’s wife. (2 Samuel 3:5; 1 Chronicles 3:3)
Ithrite
(belonging to Jether), The, the designation of two of the members of David’s guard, Ira and
Gareb. (2 Samuel 23:38; 1 Chronicles 11:40) They may have come from Jattir, in the mountains
of Judah. (B.C 1046.)
Ittahkazin
(time of the judge), one of the landmarks of the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:13) It has not
been identified.
Ittai
(with the Lord).
•“Ittai the Gittite,” i.e. the native of Gath, a Philistine in the army of King David. He appears only
during the revolution of Absalom. (B.C. 1023.) We first discern him on the morning of David’s
flight. The king urges him to return. (2 Samuel 15:18,19) Comp. 1Sam 23:13; 27:2; 30:9,10,19,20
But ittai is firm; he is the king’s slave, and wherever his master goes he will go. Accordingly he
is allowed by David to proceed. When the army was numbered and organized by David at
Mahanaim, Ittai again appears, now in command of a third part of the force. (2 Samuel 18:2,5,12)
•Son of Ribai, from Gibeah of Benjamin; one of the thirty heroes of David’s guard. (2 Samuel
23:29)
Ituraea
(land of Jether), a small province on the northwestern border of Palestine, lying along the base
of Mount Hermon, only mentioned in (Luke 3:1) Jetur the son of Ishmael gave his name like the
rest of his brethren, to the little province he colonized. (Genesis 25:15,16) It adjoined Trachonitis,
and lay along the base of Libanus between Tiberias and Damascus. At the place indicated is situated
the modern province of Jedur, which is the Arabic form of the Hebrew Jetur
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