Smith’s dictionary

The classic Victorian Bible dictionary: 4,600 short entries, especially strong on names and places.

• Jaakan(he shall surround), the same as Jakan, the forefather of Bene-Jaakan. (10:6)
• Jaakobah(supplanter), one of the princes of the families of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:36) (B.C....
• Jaala(wild she-goat). Bene-Jaala were among the descendants of "Solomon’s slaves" who...
• Jaalah(wild goat). (Ezra 2:56)
• Jaalam(whom God hides), a son of Esau, (Genesis 36:5,14,18) comp. 1Chr 1:35 And a head of a...
• Jaanai(whom Jehovah answers), a chief man in the tribe of Gad. (1 Chronicles 5:12)
• Jaareoregim(forests of the weavers), (2 Samuel 21:19) a Bethlehemite, and the father of Elhanan...
• Jaasau(whom Jehovah made), one of the Bene-Bani who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:37)...
• Jaasiel(whom God comforts), son of the great Abner. (1 Chronicles 27:21) (B.C. 1046-1014.)
• Jaazaniah(whom Jehovah hears). One of the captains of the forces who accompanied Hohanan...
• Jaazer, or Jazer(Jehovah helps), a town on the east of Jordan, in or near to Gilead. (Numbers 32:1,3;...
• Jaaziah(whom Jehovah comforts), apparently a third son, or a descendant, or Merari the...
• Jaaziel(whom Jehovah comforts), one of the Levites appointed by David to perform the musical...
• Jabal(stream), the son of Lamech and Adah, (Genesis 4:20) and brother of Jubal. He is...
• Jabbok(emptying), a stream which intersects the mountain range of Gilead, comp. (Joshua...
• Jabesh(dry). Father of Shallum, the fifteenth king of Israel. (2 Kings 15:10,13,14)...
• Jabez(sorrow). Apparently a place at which the families of the scribes resided who belonged...
• Jabin(whom God observes). King of Hazor, who organized a confederacy of the northern...
• Jabneel(building of God). One of the points on the northern boundary of Judah, not quite at...
• Jabneh(building of God), (2 Chronicles 26:6) [JABNEEL]
• Jachan(affliction), one of seven chief men of the tribe of Gad. (1 Chronicles 5:13)
• Jachin(he shall establish). One of the two pillars which were set up "in the porch," (1...
• Jacintha precious stone, forming one of the foundations of the walls of the new Jerusalem....
• Jacob(supplanter), the second son of Isaac and Rebekah. He was born with Esau, probably at...
• Jacobs Wella deep spring in the vicinity of Shechem (called Sychar in Christ’s time and Nablus at...
• Jada(wise), son of Onam and brother of Shammai, in the genealogy of the sons of Jerahmeel...
• Jadau(loving), one of the Bene-Nebo who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:43) (B.C. 459.)
• Jaddua(known). Son and successor in the high priesthood of Jonathan or Johanan. He is the...
• Jadon(judge), the Meronothite, who assisted to repair the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:7)...
• Jael(mountain goat), the wife of Heber the Kenite. (B.C. 1316.) In the headlong rout which...
• Jagur(lodging),a town of Judah, one of those farthest to the south, on the frontier of...
• Jah(Jehovah), the abbreviated form of Jehovah, used only in poetry. It occurs frequently...
• Jahath(union). Son of Libni, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. (1 Chronicles 6:20) (B.C....
• Jahaz, Also Jahaza, Jahazah and Juhzah(trodden down). Under these four forms is given in the Authorized Version the name of...
• Jahaza(trodden down). (Joshua 13:18) [JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH]
• Jahazah(trodden down). (Joshua 21:36; Jeremiah 48:21) [JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH]
• Jahaziel(whom God watches over) One of the heroes of Benjamin who joined David at Ziklag. (1...
• Jahdai(whom Jehovah directs), a man who appears to be thrust abruptly into the genealogy of...
• Jahdiel(whom Jehovah makes joyful), a chieftain of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1...
• Jahdo(united), a Gadite, (1 Chronicles 5:14) son of Buz and father of Jeshishai.
• Jahleel(hoping in Jehovah), the third of the three sons of Zebulun, (Genesis 46:14; Numbers...
• Jahmai(whom Jehovah guards), a man of Issachar, one of the heads of the house of Tolah. (1...
• Jahnziah(whom Jehovah watches over), son of Tikvah, apparently a priest. (Ezra 10:15)
• Jahzah(trodden down). (1 Chronicles 6:78) [JAHAZ, ALSO JAHAZA, JAHAZAH AND JUHZAH]
• Jahzeel(whom God allots), the first of the four sons of Naphtali, (Genesis 46:24) founder of...
• Jahzerah(whom God leads back), a priest of the house of Immer. (1 Chronicles 9:12)
• Jahziel(whom God allots), the same as JAHZEEL. (1 Chronicles 7:13)
• Jair(enlightener). A man who on his father’s side was descended from Judah, and on his...
• Jairite(descendant of Jair). The IRA THE JAIRITE was a priest (Authorized Version "chief...
• Jairus(whom God enlightens). A ruler of a synagogue, probably in some town near the western...
• Jakamean(who gathers the people together), a Levite in the time of King David; fourth of the...
• Jakan(sagacious), son of Ezer the Horite. (1 Chronicles 1:42) The same as JAAKANJAAKAN....
• Jakeh(pious). [PROVERBS, BOOK OF, BOOK OF]
• Jakim(whom God sets up). Head of the twelfth course of priests in the reign of David. (1...
• Jalon(abiding), one of the sons of Ezra. (1 Chronicles 4:17)
• Jambres[JANNES AND JAMBRES]
• James(the Greek form of Jacob, supplanter). James the son of Zebedee, one of the twelve...
• James the Lesscalled the Less because younger or smaller in stature than James the son of Zebedee....
• James, the General Epistle ofThe author of this epistle was in all probability James the son of Alphaeus, and our...
• Jamin(right hand). Second son of Simeon, (Genesis46:10; Exod 6:15; 1Chr 4:24 Founder of the...
• Jamlech(whom God makes king), one of the chief men of the tribe of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:34)
• Jamnin[JABNEEL]
• Janna(flourishing), son of Joseph, and father of Melchi, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke...
• Jannesand Jam’bres , the names of two Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses. Exod 7:9-13;...
• Janoah(rest), a place apparently in the north of Galilee, or the "land of Naphtali," --one...
• Janohah(rest), a place on the boundary of Ephraim (Joshua 16:6,7) east of Neapolis. A little...
• Janum(slumber), a town of Judah in the mountain district, apparently not far from Hebron....
• Japheth(enlargement), one of the three sons of Noah. The descendants of Japheth occupied the...
• Japhia(splendid). King of Lachish at the time of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites....
• Japhia(splended) The boundary of Zebulun ascended from Daberath to Japhia, and thence passed...
• Japhleli(the Japhletite). The boundary of the "Japhletite" is one of the landmarks on the...
• Japhlet(whom God delivers) a descendant of Asher through Beriah. (1 Chronicles 7:32,33)
• Japho(beauty). (John 19:46) The Hebrew form for the better-known JOPPA, OR JAPHO. (2...
• Jarah(honey), a descendant of Saul; son of Micah and great-grandson of Mephibosheth. (1...
• Jareb(adversary) is to be explained either as the proper name of a country or person, as a...
• Jared(descent), one of the antediluvian patriarchs, and further of Enoch (Genesis...
• Jaresiah(whom Jehovah nourishes),a Benjamite, one of the Bene-Jehoram. (1 Chronicles 8:17)
• Jarhathe Egyptian servant of Sheshan, about the time of Eli, to whom his master gave his...
• Jarib(adversary). Named in the list of (1 Chronicles 4:24) only, as a son of Simeon....
• Jarimoth(heights). 1 Esd. 9:28. [JEREMOTH]
• Jarmuth(high). A town in the low country of Judah. (Joshua 16:35) Its king, Piram, was one of...
• Jaroah(moon), a chief man of the tribe of Gad (1 Chronicles 5:14)
• Jashen(sleeping). Bene-Jashen --"sons of Jashen"-- are named in the catalogue of the heroes...
• Jasher(upright),Book of ("the book of the upright"), alluded to in two passages only of the...
• Jashobeam(to whom the people turn), named first among the chief of the mighty men of David. (1...
• Jashub(he turns). The third son of Issachar, and founder of the family of the Jashubites....
• Jashubilehem(turner back for food), a person or a place named among the descendants of Shelah, the...
• Jasiel(whom God made), the last named on the list of David’s heroes in (1 Chronicles 11:47)
• Jason(one who will heal), called the Thessalonian, entertained Paul and Silas, and was in...
• Jaspera precious stone frequently noticed in Scripture. It was the last of the twelve...
• Jathniel(whom God gives), a Korhite Levite, the fourth of the family of Meshelemiah. (1...
• Jattir(pre-eminent), a town of Judah in the mountain districts, (Joshua 15:48) one of the...
• Javan(clay). A son of Japheth. (Genesis 10:2,4) Javan was regarded as the representative of...
• Javelin[ARMS, ARMOR]
• Jazer(Jehovah helps). [JAAZER, OR JAZER]
• Jaziz(whom God moves), a Hagarite who had charge of the flocks of King David. (1 Chronicles...
• Jearim(forests), Mount, a place named in specifying the northern boundary of Judah. (Joshua...
• Jeaterai(whom Jehovah leads), a Gershonite Levite, son of Zerah. (1 Chronicles 6:21)
• Jeberechiah(whom Jehovah blesses), father of a certain Zechariah, in the reign of Ahaz, mentioned...
• Jebus(threshing-floor), one of the names of Jerusalem, the city of the Jebusites, are...
• Jebusi(from Jebus), the name employed for the city of JEBUS. (Joshua 15:8; 18:16,28)
• Jebusites(descendants of Jebus), The, were descended from the third son of Canaan. (Genesis...
• Jecamiah(whom Jehovah gathers), one of seven who were introduced into the royal line, on the...
• Jecholiah(strong through Jehovah) wife of Amaziah king of Judah, and mother of Azariah or...
• JecoliahThe same as JECHOLIAH. (2 Chronicles 26:3)
• Jeconiah(whom Jehovah establishes). [See JEHOIACHIN]
• Jeconiasthe Greek form of Jeconiah, an altered form of Jehoiachin. [JEHOIACHIN]
• JedaiahA Simeonite, forefather of Ziza. (1 Chronicles 4:37) Son of Harumaph; a man who did...
• Jedaiah(praise Jehovah). Head of the second course of priests, as they were divided in the...
• Jediael(known of God). A chief patriarch of the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 7:6,11) It...
• Jedidah(one beloved), queen of Amon and mother of the good king Josiah. (2 Kings 22:1) (B.C. 648.)
• Jedidiah(beloved of Jehovah), Jedid-jah (darling of Jehovah), the name bestowed, through...
• Jeduthun(praising), a Levite of the family of Merari, is probably the same as Ethan. Comp. (1...
• Jeezer(father of help), (Numbers 26:30) the name of a descendant of Manasseh and founder of...
• Jegarsahadutha(heap of testimony), the Aramaean name given by Laban the Syrian to the heap of stones...
• Jehaleleel(who praises God). Four men of the Bene-Jehaleleel are introduced abruptly into the...
• Jehalelel(who praises God), a Merarite Levite, father of Azariah. (2 Chronicles 29:12)
• Jehdeiah(whom Jehovah makes glad). The representative of the Bene-Shubael, in the time of...
• Jehezekel(whom God makes strong), a priest to whom was given by David the charge of the...
• Jehiah(Jehovah lives), "doorkeeper for the ark" at the time of its establishment in...
• Jehiel(treasured of God), a perfectly distinct name from the last. A man described as father...
• Jehiel(God lives). One of the Levites appointed by David to assist in the service of the...
• Jehieli(a Jehielite), according to the Authorized Version a Gershonite Levite of the family...
• Jehizkiah(Jehovah strengthens), son of Shallum, one of the heads of the tribe of Ephraim in the...
• Jehoadah(whom Jehovah adorns), one of the descendants of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:36)
• Jehoaddan(Whom Jehovah adorns), queen to King Josiah, and mother of Amaziah of Judah. (2 Kings...
• Jehoahaz(whom the Lord sustains). The son and successor of jehu, reigned 17 years, B.C....
• Jehoash(given by the Lord), the uncontracted form of Joash. The eighth king of Judah; son of...
• Jehohanan(whom Jehovah gave), a name of which John is the contraction. A Korhite Levite, one of...
• Jehoiachin(whom Jehovah has appointed), son of Jehoiakim, and for three months and ten days king...
• Jehoiada(Jehovah knows). Father of Benaiah, David’s well-known warrior. (2 Samuel 8:18) 1Kin 1...
• Jehoiakim(whom Jehovah sets up), called Eliakim, son of Josiah and king of Judah. After...
• Jehoiarib(whom Jehovah defends), head of the first of the twenty-four courses of priests. (1...
• Jehonadab(whom Jehovah impels) and Jon’adab, the son of Rechab, founder of the Rechabites, an...
• Jehonathan(whom Jehovah gave). Son of Uzziah; superintendent of certain of King David’s...
• Jehoram(whom Jehovah has exalted). Son of Ahab king of Israel, who succeeded his brother...
• Jehoshabeath(whose oath is Jehovah). (2 Chronicles 22:11) [See JEHOSHEBA]
• Jehoshaphat(whom Jehovah judges.) King of Judah, son of Asa, succeeded to the throne B.C. 914,...
• Jehoshaphat, Valley of(valley of the judgment of Jehovah), a valley mentioned by Joel only, as the spot in...
• Jehosheba(Jehovah’s oath), daughter of Joram king of Israel, and wife of jehoiada the high...
• Jehoshua(whose help is Jehovah; Help of Jehovah or savoiur). In this form is given the name of...
• Jehoshuahin the genealogy of Ephraim. (1 Chronicles 7:27)
• Jehovah(I am; the eternal living one). The Scripture appellation of the supreme Being,...
• Jehovahjireh(Jehovah will see or provide), the name given by Abraham to the place on which he had...
• Jehovahnissi(Jehovah my banner), the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in...
• Jehovahshalom(Jehovah (is) peace), or, with an ellipsis, "Jehovah the God of peace." The altar...
• Jehozabad(whom Jehovah gave). A Korhite Levite, second son of Obed-edom, and one of the porters...
• Jehozadak(Jehovah justifies), usually called Jozadak or Josedech. He was the son of the high...
• Jehu(the living). The founder of the fifth dynasty of the kingdom of Israel, son of...
• Jehubbah(protected), a man of Asher, son of Shamer or Shomer, of the house of Beriah. (1...
• Jehucal(able), son of Shelemiah; one of two persons sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to...
• Jehud(praised), one of the towns of the tribe of Dan, (Joshua 19:45) named between Baalath...
• Jehudi(a Jew), son of Nethaniah, a man employed by the princes of Jehoiakim’s court to fetch...
• Jehudijah(the Jewess). There is really no such name in the Hebrew Bible as that which our...
• 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...
• Jekabzeel(what God gathers), a fuller form of the name of KABZEEL, the most remote city of...
• Jekamiah(whom Jehovah gathers), son of Shallum, in the line of Ahlai. (1 Chronicles 2:41)...
• Jekuthiela 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...
• 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...
• Jephunneh(for whom a way is prepared). Father of Caleb the spy, appears to have belonged to an...
• Jerah(the moon), the fourth in order of the sons of Joktan, (Genesis 10:26; 1 Chronicles...
• Jerahmeel(mercy of God). First-born son of hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah, (1...
• Jerahmeelites(descendants of Jerahmeel), The, the tribe descended from the first of the foregoing...
• Jered(descent). Son of Mahalaleel and father of Enoch. (1 Chronicles 1:2) One of the...
• Jeremai(dwelling in heights), a layman, one of the Bene-Hashum, who was compelled by Ezra to...
• JeremiahSeven other persons bearing the same name as the prophet are mentioned in the Old...
• Jeremiah(whom Jehovah has appointed) was "the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in...
• Jeremiah, Book of"There can be little doubt that the book of Jeremiah grew out of the roll which Baruch...
• Jeremiasthe Greek form of the name of Jeremiah the prophet. (Matthew 16:14)
• Jeremoth(heights). A Benjamite chief, a son of the house of Beriah of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles...
• Jeremythe prophet Jeremiah. (Matthew 2:17; 27:9)
• Jeriaha Kohathite Levite, chief of the great house of Hebron when David organized the...
• Jeribai(whom Jehovah defends), one of the Bene-Elnaan, named among the heroes of David’s...
• Jericho(place of fragrance), a city of high antiquity, situated in a plain traversed by the...
• Jeriel(people of God), a man of Issachar, one of the six heads of the house of Tola. (1...
• Jerijah(people of Jehovah). [See JERIAH]
• Jerimoth(heights). Son or descendant of Bela. (1 Chronicles 7:7) He is perhaps the same as who...
• Jerioth(curtains), one of the elder Caleb’s wives. (1 Chronicles 2:18)
• Jeroboam(whose people are many). The first king of the divided kingdom of Israel, B.C....
• Jeroham(cherished). Father of Elkanah, the father of Samuel, of the house of Kohath. (1...
• Jerubbaal, or Jerubbaal(contender with Baal), the surname of Gideon, which he acquired in consequence of...
• Jerubbesheth(contender with the shame), a name of Gideon. (2 Samuel 11:21)
• Jeruel(founded by God), The wilderness of, the place in which Jehoshaphat was informed by...
• Jerusalem(the habitation of peace), Jerusalem stands in latitude 31 degrees 46’ 35" north and...
• Jerusha(possessed), daughter of Zadok and queen of Uzziah. (2 Kings 15:33) (B.C. 806.)
• Jerushah(possessed). (2 Chronicles 27:1) The same as the preceding.
• Jesaiah(salvation of Jehovah). Son of Hananiah, brother of Pelatiah and grandson of...
• Jeshaiah(salvation of Jehovah). One of the six sons of Jeduthun. (1 Chronicles 25:3,15) (B.C....
• Jeshanah(old), a town which, with its dependent villages, was one of the three taken from...
• Jesharelah(right before God), son of Asaph, and head of the seventh of the twenty-four wards...
• Jeshebeab(father’s seat), head of the fourteenth course of priests. (1 Chronicles 24:13) [JEHOIARIB]
• Jesher(uprightness), one of the sons of Caleb the son of Hezron by his wife Azubah. (1...
• Jeshimon(a wilderness), a name which occurs in (Numbers 21:20) and Numb 23:28 In designating...
• Jeshishai(descended from an old man), one of the ancestors of the Gadites who dwelt in Gilead....
• Jeshohaiah(whom Jehovah casts down), a chief of the Simeonites, descended from Shimei. (1...
• Jeshua(whom Jehovah helps), one of the towns reinhabited by the people of Judah after the...
• Jeshua(a saviour), another form of the name of Joshua of Jesus. Joshua the son of Nun....
• Jeshuaha priest in the reign of David, (1 Chronicles 24:11) the same as JESHUA, No. 2. (B.C. 1014.)
• Jeshurun(supremely happy), and once by mistake in Authorized Version JESURUN, (Isaiah 44:2) a...
• Jesiah(whom Jehovah lends). A Korhite, one of the mighty men who joined David’s standard at...
• Jesimiel(whom God makes), a Simeonite chief of the family of Shimei. (1 Chronicles 4:36) (B.C....
• Jesse(wealthy), the father of David, was the son of Obed, who again was the fruit of the...
• Jesui(even, level), the son of Asher, whose descendants the Jesuites were numbered in the...
• Jesuites(the posterity of Jesui), The, a family of the tribe of Asher. (Numbers 26:44)
• Jesurun[JESHURUN]
• Jesuscalled Jestus, a Christian who was with St. Paul at Rome. (Colossians 4:11) (A.D. 57.)
• Jesus(saviour). The Greek form of the name Joshua or Jeshua, a contraction of Jehoshua,...
• Jesus Christ"The life and character of Jesus Christ," says Dr. Schaff, "is the holy of holies in...
• Jesus the Son of Sirach[ECCLESIASTICUS]
• Jether(his excellence). Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses. (Exodus 4:18) (B.C. 1530.) The...
• Jetheth(a nail), one of the "dukes" who came of Esau. (Genesis 36:40; 1 Chronicles 1:51)
• Jethlah(height), one of the cities of the tribe of Dan. (Joshua 19:42)
• Jethro(his excellence) was priest or prince of Midian. Moses married his daughter Zipporah....
• Jetur(an enclosure). (Genesis 25:15; 1 Chronicles 1:31; 5:19) [ITURAEA]
• Jeuela chief man of Judah, one of the Bene-Zerah. (1 Chronicles 9:6) comp. 1Chr 9:2 [JEIEL]
• Jeush(assembler). Son of Esau by Aholiabamah the daughter of Anah, the son of Zebeon the...
• Jeuz(counsellor), head of a Benjamite house. (1 Chronicles 8:10)
• Jew(a man of Judea). This name was properly applied to a member of the kingdom of Judah...
• Jewel[STONES, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS]
• Jewessa woman of Hebrew birth, without distinction of tribe. (Acts 16:1; 24:24)
• Jewishof or belonging to Jews; an epithet applied to their rabbinical legends. (Titus 1:14)
• Jewry(the country of Judea), the same word elsewhere rendered Judah and Judea. It occurs...
• Jezaniah(whom Jehovah hears), the son of Hoshaiah the Maachathite, and one of the captains of...
• Jezebel(chaste), wife of Ahab king of Israel. (B.C. 883.) She was a Phoenician princess,...
• Jezer(power), the third son of Naphtali, (Genesis 46:24; Numbers 26:49; 1 Chronicles 7:13)...
• Jeziah(whom Jehovah expiates), a descendant of Parosh, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:25)
• Jeziel(the assembly of God), a Benjamite who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:3) (B.C. 1055.)
• Jezliah(whom God will preserve), a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:18) (B.C. 588.)
• Jezoar(whiteness), the son of Helah, one of the wives of Asher. (1 Chronicles 4:7)
• Jezrahiah(produced by Jehovah), a Levite, the leader of the choristers at the solemn dedication...
• JezreelA city situated in the plain of the same name between Gilboa and Little Hermon, now...
• Jezreel(seed of God), a descendant of the father or founder of Etam, of the line of Judah. (1...
• Jezreelitessa woman of Jezreel. (1 Samuel 27:3; 30:5; 2 Samuel 2:2; 3:2; 1 Chronicles 3:1)
• Jibsam(pleasant), one of the sons of Tola, the son of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:2) (B.C. 1017.)
• Jidlaph(weeping), a son of Nahor. (Genesis 22:22)
• Jimna(prosperity), the first-born of Asher. (Numbers 26:44) He is elsewhere called in the...
• Jimnah= JIMNA = IMNAH. (Genesis 46:17)
• Jimnites, thedescendants of the preceding. (Numbers 26:44)
• Jinah(lamentation), a city of Judah, on the extreme south boundary of the tribe, next to...
• Jiphtah(whom God sets free), one of the cities of Judah in the maritime lowland, or Shefelah....
• Jiphthahel(which God opens), The valley of, a valley which served as one of the landmarks for...
• Jirjathaim(the two cities). On the east of the Jordan, one of the places which were taken...
• Joaada(whom Jehovah favors), high priest after his father Eliashib. (Nehemiah 13:28) (B.C....
• Joab(whose father is Jehovah), the most remarkable of the three nephews of David, the...
• Joah(whose brother (i.e. helper) is Jehovah). The son of Asaph,a nd chronicler or keeper...
• Joahaz(whom Jehovah holds), the father of Joah, the chronicler or keeper of the records to...
• JoananIn Revised Version for JOANNA, 1. (Luke 3:27)
• Joanna(grace or gift of God) (in Revised Version spelled JOANAN). Son of Rhesa, according to...
• Joash(to whom Jehovah hastens, i.e. to help), contracted from JEHOASH. Son of Ahaziah king...
• Joatham= JOTHAM the son of Uzziah. (Matthew 1:9)
• Jobthe patriarch, from whom one of the books of the Old Testament is named. His residence...
• Job(persecuted), the third son of Issachar, (Genesis 46:13) called in another genealogy...
• Job, Book ofThis book has given rise to much discussion and criticism, some believing the book to...
• Jobab(a desert). The last in order of the sons of Joktan. (Genesis 10:29; 1 Chronicles...
• Jochebed(whose glory is Jehovah), the wife and at the same time the aunt of Amram and the...
• Jodain Revised Version for JUDA. (Luke 3:26)
• Joed(for whom Jehovah is witness), a Benjamite, the son of Pedaiah. (Nehemiah 11:7)
• Joel(to whom Jehovah is God). Eldest son of Samuel the prophet, (1 Samuel 8:2; 1...
• Joelah(Jehovah helps), son of Jerohoam of Gedor. (1 Chronicles 12:7)
• Joezer(whose help is Jehovah), a Korhite, one of David’s captains. (1 Chronicles 12:6) (B.C. 1155.)
• Jogbehah(lofty), one of the cities on the east of Jordan which were built and fortified by the...
• Jogli(led into exile), the father of Bukki, a Danite chief. (Numbers 34:22)
• Joha(Jehovah gives life). One of the sons of Beriah the Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 8:16)...
• Johanan(gift or grace of God). Son of Azariah and grandson of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, and...
• Johnthe same name as Johanan, a contraction of Jehoanan, Jehovah’s gift . One of the high...
• John the Apostlewas the son of Zebedee, a fisherman on the Lake of Galilee, and of Salome, and brother...
• John the Baptistwas of the priestly race by both parents, for his father, Zacharias, was himself a...
• John, Gospel ofThis Gospel was probably written at Ephesus about A.D. 78. (Canon Cook places it...
• John, the First Epistle General ofThere can be no doubt that the apostle John was the author of this epistle. It was...
• John, the Second and Third Epistles ofThe second epistle is addressed to an individual woman. One who had children, and a...
• Joiakim(whom Jehovah sets up), a high priest, son of the renowned Jeshua. (Nehemiah 12:10)...
• Joiarib(whom Jehovah defends.) A layman who returned form Babylon with Ezra. (Ezra 8:16)...
• Jokdean(possessed by the people), a city of Judah, in the mountains, (Joshua 15:56)...
• Jokim(whom Jehovah has set up), one of the sons of Shelah the son of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:22)
• Jokmeam(gathered by the people), a city of Ephraim, given with its suburbs to a Kohathite...
• Jokneam(possessed by the people), a city of the tribe of Zebulun, allotted with its suburbs...
• Jokshan(fowler), a son of Abraham and Keturah, (Genesis 25:2,3; 1 Chronicles 1:32) whose sons...
• Joktan(small), son of Eber, (Genesis 10:25; 1 Chronicles 1:19) and the father of the...
• Joktheel(subdued by God). A city in the low country of Judah, (Joshua 15:38) named next to...
• Jona(a dove) (Greek form of Jonah), the father of the apostle Peter, (John 1:42) who is...
• Jonadab(whom Jehovah impels). Son of Shimeah and nephew of David. (B.C. 1033.) He is...
• Jonah(dove), the fifth of the minor prophets, was the son of Amittai, and a native of...
• Jonam(gift or grace of God), the form given to JONAN in the Revised Version of (Luke 3:30)
• Jonan(perhaps a contraction of Johnana, gift or grace of God), son of Eliakim, in the...
• Jonas(a dove). The prophet Jonah. (Matthew 12:39,40,41; 16:4) Father of Peter. (John...
• Jonathanthat is, "the gift of Jehovah, " the eldest son of King Saul. (B.C. about 1095-1056.)...
• Jonathelemrechokim(a dumb love of (in) distant places), a phrase found once only in the Bible, as a...
• Joppa, or Japho(beauty), now Jaffa , a town on the southwest coast of Palestine, in the portion of...
• Jorah(the early rain), the ancestor of a family of 112 who returned from Babylon with Ezra....
• Jorai(whom Jehovah teaches), one of the Gadites dwelling at Gilead in Bashan, in the reign...
• Joram(whom Jehovah has exalted). Son of Ahab king of Israel. (2 Kings 8:16,25,28,29;...
• Jordan(the descender), the one river of Palestine, has a course of little more than 200...
• Jorim(whom Jehovah has exalted), son of Matthat, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:29)
• Jorkoam(paleness of the people), either a descendant of Caleb the son of Hezron, or the name...
• Josabad(whom Jehovah bestows), properly JOZABAD the Gederathite, one of the warriors of...
• Josaphat= Jehoshaphat king of Judah. (Matthew 1:8)
• Jose(another form of JOSES), son of Eliezer, in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. (Luke 3:29)
• Josechthe form of name given in the Revised Version for JOSEPH, in (Luke 3:26) It is not...
• Josedech = Jehozadak(whom Jehovah makes just), the son of Seraiah. (Haggai 1:1,12,14; 2:2,4; Zechariah 6:11)
• Joseph(increase). The elder of the two sons of Jacob by Rachel. He was born in Padan-aram...
• Joses(exalted). Son of Eliezer, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:29) One of the Lord’s...
• Joshah(whom Jehovah lets dwell), a prince of the house of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:34,38-41)
• Joshaphat(whom Jehovah judges), the Mithnite, one of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:43)
• Joshaviah(whom Jehovah makes dwell), the son of Elnaam, and one of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles...
• Joshbekashah(a seat in a hard place), son of Heman, head of the seventeenth course of musicians....
• Joshua(saviour, or whose help is Jehovah). His name appears in the various forms of...
• Joshua, Book ofNamed from Joshua the son of Nun, who is the principal character in it. The book may...
• Josiah(whom Jehovah heals). The son of Amon and Jedidah, succeeded his father B.C. 641, in...
• JosiasJosiah, king of Judah. (Matthew 1:10,11)
• Josibiah(to whom God gives a dwelling), the father of Jehu, a Simeonite. (1 Chronicles 4:35)
• Josiphiah(whom Jehovah will increase), the father or ancestor of Shelomith, who returned with...
• Jotthe English form of the Greek iota , i.e., the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet....
• 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...
• Jozabad(Jehovah justifies). A captain of the thousands of Manasseh, who deserted to David...
• Jozachar(whom Jehovah has remembered), one of the murderers of Joash king of Judah. (2 Kings...
• Jozadak(whom Jehovah has made just). (Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; 10:18; Nehemiah 12:26) The contracted...
• Jubal(music), a son of Lamech by Adah, and the inventor of the "harp and organ." (Genesis 4:21)
• Jubilee, the Year ofthe name. --The name jubilee is derived from the Hebrew jobel , the joyful shout or...
• Jucal(powerful), son of Shelemiah. (Jeremiah 38:1)
• Juda(praised). Son of Joseph, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:30) Son of Joanna, or...
• Judaea, or Judea(from Judah), a territorial division which succeeded to the overthrow of the ancient...
• Judah(praised, celebrated), the fourth son of Jacob and the fourth of Leah. (B.C. after...
• Judah, Kingdom ofExtent. --When the disruption of Solomon’s kingdom took place at Shechem, B.C. 975,...
• Judassurnamed Barsabas, a leading member of the apostolic church at Jerusalem, (Acts 15:22)...
• Judasthe Greek form of the Hebrew name Judah, occurring in the LXX, and the New Testament....
• Judas Iscariot(Judas of Kerioth). He is sometimes called "the son of Simon," (John 6:71; 13:2,26)...
• Judas Maccabaeus[MACCABEES]
• Judas of Galileethe leader of a popular revolt "in the days of the taxing" (i.e. the census, under the...
• Judas, the Lords BrotherAmong the brethren of our Lord mentioned by the people of Nazareth. (Matthew 13:55;...
• Jude, Epistle ofIts author was probably Jude, one of the brethren of Jesus, the subject of the...
• Jude, or Judascalled also LEBBEUS and THADDEUS, Authorized Version "Judas the brother of James," one...
• JudgesThe judges were temporary and special deliverers, sent by God to deliver the...
• Judges, Book ofof which the book or Ruth formed originally a part, contains a history from Joshua to...
• Judgment HallThe word praetorium is so translated five times in the Authorized Version of the New...
• Judith(Jewess , or praised). The daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and wife of Esau. (Genesis...
• Judith, the Book ofone of the books of the Apocrypha, belongs to the earliest specimens of historical...
• Julia(feminine of Julius), a Christian woman at Rome, probably the wife of Philologus, in...
• Julius(soft-haired), the centurion of "Augustus’ band," to whose charge St. Paul was...
• Junia(belonging to Juno), a Christian at Rome, mentioned by St. Paul as one of his kinsfolk...
• JuniasRevised Version for JUNIA above. It is the more literal form.
• Juniper(1 Kings 19:4,5; Job 30:4; Psalms 120:4) a sort of broom, Genista monosperma, G....
• Jupiter(a father that helps), the Greek Zeus. The Olympian Zeus was the national god of the...
• Jushabhesed(whose love is returned), son of Zerubbabel. (1 Chronicles 3:20)
• Justus(just). A surname of Joseph, called Barsabas. (Acts 1:23) (A.D. 30.) A Christian at...
• Juttah(stretched out), a city in the mountain region of Judah, in the neighborhood of Maon...