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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Jot
the English form of the Greek iota, i.e., the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. The Hebrew
is yod, or y formed like a comma (’). It is used metaphorically to express the minutest thing.
Jotbah
(goodness), the native place of Meshullemeth, the queen of Manasseh. (2 Kings 21:19)
Jotbath, Or Jotbathah
(goodness), (10:7; Numbers 33:33) a desert station of the Israelites.
Jotham
(Jehovah is upright).
•The youngest son of Gideon, (Judges 9:5) who escaped from the massacre of his brethren. (B.C.
after 1256.) His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind.
•The son of King Uzziah or Azariah and Jerushah. After administering the kingdom for some years
during his father’s leprosy, he succeeded to the throne B.C. 758, when he was 25 years old, and
reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. He was contemporary with Pekah and with the prophet Isaiah. His
history is contained in (2 Kings 15:1) ... and 2Chr 27:1 ...
•A descendant of Judah, son of Jahdai. (1 Chronicles 2:47)
Jozabad
(Jehovah justifies).
•A captain of the thousands of Manasseh, who deserted to David before the battle of Gilboa. (1
Chronicles 12:20) (B.C. 1053.)
•A hero of Manasseh, like the preceding. (1 Chronicles 12:20)
•A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.)
•A chief Levite in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9)
•A Levite, son of Jeshua, in the days of Ezra. (Ezra 8:33) (B.C. 459.) Probably identical with No.
7.
•A priest of the sons of Pashur, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:22)
•A Levite among those who returned with Ezra and had married foreign wives. He is probably
identical with Jozabad the Levite, (Nehemiah 8:7) and with Jozabad who presided over the outer
work of the temple. (Nehemiah 11:16) (B.C. 459.)
Jozachar
(whom Jehovah has remembered), one of the murderers of Joash king of Judah. (2 Kings 12:21)
The writer of the Chronicles, (2 Chronicles 24:26) calls him Zabad. (B.C. 837.)
Jozadak
(whom Jehovah has made just). (Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; 10:18; Nehemiah 12:26) The contracted form
of Jehozadak.
Jubal
(music), a son of Lamech by Adah, and the inventor of the “harp and organ.” (Genesis 4:21)
Jubilee, The Year Of
•the
name.—The name jubilee is derived from the Hebrew jobel, the joyful shout or clangor of
trumpets, by which the year of jubilee was announced.
•The time of its celebration.—It was celebrated every fiftieth year, marking the half century; so
that it followed the seventh sabbatic year, and for two years in succession the land lay fallow. It
was announced by the blowing of trumpets on the day of atonement (about the 1st of October),
the tenth day of the first month of the Israelites’ civil year (the seventh of their ecclesiastical year).
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