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HebrewH3003Noun

יָבֵשׁ

ya.vesh

21Occurrences
H3003Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jobesh, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine

the same as H3002 (יָבֵשׁ) (also יָבֵישׁ; often with the addition of H1568 (גִּלְעָד), i.e. Jabesh of Gilad);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Jabesh = "dry" a town in the territory of Gilead; according to Eusebius, it is beyond the Jordan, 6 miles (10 km) from Pella, on the mountain road to Gerasa may be modern 'Wadi Yabes'

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

יָבֵשׁ appears 21 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
8
Judges
5
2 Kings
3
2 Samuel
3
1 Chronicles
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:11BSB

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Samuel 11:5BSB

Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.

1 Samuel 31:12BSB

all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan.When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

2 Kings 15:14BSB

Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.

Judges 21:8BSB

So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.