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Smith's Bible Dictionary
(the Jewess). There is really no such name in the Hebrew Bible as that which our Authorized
Version exhibits at (1 Chronicles 4:18) If it is a proper name at all, it is Ha-jehudijah, like
Hammelech, Hak-koz, etc.; and it seems to be rather an appellative, “the Jewess.”
Jehush
(to whom God hastens), son of eshek, a remote descendant of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:39)
Jeiel
(treasured of God).
•A Reubenite of the house of Joel. (1 Chronicles 5:7)
•A Merarite Levite, one of the gate-keepers to the sacred tent. (1 Chronicles 15:18) His duty was
also to play the harp, ver. (1 Chronicles 15:21) or the psaltery and harp, (1 Chronicles 16:5) in the
service before the ark. (B.C. 1043.)
•A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Asaph, forefather of Jahaziel in the time of King Jehoshaphat.
(2 Chronicles 20:14) (B.C. 910.)
•The scribe who kept the account of the numbers of King Uzziah’s irregular predatory warriors.
(2 Chronicles 26:11) (B.C. 803.)
•A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Elizaphan. (2 Chronicles 29:13)
•One of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9) (B.C. 623.)
•One of the Bene-Adonikam who formed part of the caravan of Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem.
(Ezra 8:13) (B.C. 459.)
•A layman of the Bene-Nebo, who had taken a foreign wife and had to relinquish her. (Ezra 10:43)
(B.C. 459.)
Jekabzeel
(what God gathers), a fuller form of the name of Kabzeel, the most remote city of Judah on the
southern frontier. (Nehemiah 11:25)
Jekamiah
(whom Jehovah gathers), son of Shallum, in the line of Ahlai. (1 Chronicles 2:41) (B.C. about
588.)
Jekuthiel
a man recorded in the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:18)
Jemima
(dove), the eldest of the three daughters born to Job after the restoration of his prosperity. (Job
42:14)
Jemuel
(day of God), the eldest son of Simeon. (Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15) (B.C. 1706.)
Jephthae
(whom God sets free), (Hebrews 11:32) the Greek form of the name Jephthah.
Jephthah
(whom God sets free), A judge about B.C. 1143-1137. His history is contained in (Judges 11:1;
Judges 12:8) He was a Gileadite, the son of Gilead and a concubine. Driven by the legitimate sons
from his father’s inheritance, he went to Tob and became the head of a company of freebooters in
a debatable land probably belonging to Ammon. (2 Samuel 10:6) (This land was east of Jordan and
southeast of Gilead, and bordered on the desert of Arabia.—ED.) His fame as a bold and successful
captain was carried back to his native Gilead; and when the time was ripe for throwing off the yoke
of Ammon, Jephthah consented to become the captain of the Gileadite bands, on the condition,
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