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HebrewH3500Proper Noun (Masculine)

יֶ֫תֶר

ye.ter

8Occurrences
H3500Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jether, the name of five or six Israelites and of one Midianite

the same as H3499 (יֶתֶר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at ; son of: Gideon (H1439); brother of: Abimelech (H0040H) and Jotham (H3147) § Jether = "abundance" 1) father-in-law of ) oldest son of Gideon 3) father of Jephunneh and the chief of a line of warriors of the line of ) father of Amasa, the commander of Absalom's army 5) son of Jada, a descendant of Hezron, of the tribe of ) a son of Ezra, a Judaite

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

יֶ֫תֶר appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
4
1 Kings
2
Exodus
1
Judges
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:17BSB

Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

1 Chronicles 2:32BSB

The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai:Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.

1 Chronicles 4:17BSB

The sons of Ezrah:Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.And Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

1 Chronicles 7:38BSB

The sons of Jether:Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

1 Kings 2:5BSB

Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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