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CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE J - Jehoahaz by James Strong & John Mcclintock THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE J - Jehoahaz by James Strong & John McClintock To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God: Welcome to the AGES Digital Library. We trust your experience with this and other volumes in the Library fulfills our motto and vision which is our commitment to you: MAKING THE WORDS OF THE WISE AVAILABLE TO ALL — INEXPENSIVELY. AGES Software Rio, WI USA Version 1.0 © 2000 2 J Jaa’ikan (Heb. Yaakan’, ˆq;[}yi , wrester; Sept. has two names, Ijwaka<n kai< Oujka>m, other copies simply Aka>n or Ijaki>m; Vulg. Jacan), the last named of the sons of Ezer, son of Seir the Horite (<130142>1 Chronicles 1:42, where it is Anglicized “Jakan”); called in the parallel passage (<013627>Genesis 36:27) by a simpler form of the same name, AKAN. B.C. ante 1964. His descendants appear to have settled in the northern part of the Arabah. He was the forefather of the Bene-Jaakan (q.v.), round whose wells the children of Israel twice encamped, once after they left Moseroth, and just before they went on to Hor-Hagidgad (<043330>Numbers 33:30-32), and again in a reverse direction after they left Kadesh-barnea, and before they reached Mount Hor or Mosera (<051006>Deuteronomy 10:6). SEE BEEROTH-BENE-JAAKAN. Jaak’obah [some Jaako’bah] (Heb. Yaako’bah, hb;qo[}yi, a paragogic form of the name Jacob; Sept. Ijakaba>), one of the prosperous descendants (µyaæycæn] princes) of Simeon that emigrated to the valley of Gedor [Gerar] (<130436>1 Chronicles 4:36). B.C. apparently cir. 710. Ja’ala [many Jad’la] (Heb. Yaala’, al;[}yi, ibex; Sept. Ieah>l v.r. Ijelh>l) one of the Nethinim (“servants of Solomon”) whose descendants (or perhaps a place whose former inhabitants) returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel (<160758>Nehemiah 7:58); called in the parallel passage (<150256>Ezra 2:56) by the equivalent [the final a or h by Chaldaeism] name JAALAH (hl;[}yi, Septo Ijela>). C. ante 53G. Ja’alah [many Jaaa’lah] (<150256>Ezra 2:56). SEE JAALA. 3 Ja’alam [many Jaii’lamn] (Heb. Yalam’, µl;[]yi concealer; Sept. Ijeglo>m), the second named of Esau’s three sons by Aholibamah in Canaan (<013605>Genesis 36:5, 14; <130135>1 Chronicles 1:35). B.C. post 1964. Jaan SEE DAN-JAAN. Ja’anai [some Jaa’nai] (Hebrew yni[]yi, mourner, otherwise, for hy;n][]yi, answered by Jehovah; Sept. Ijanai> v. r. Ijani>n, Vulg. Janai), one of the chief Gadites resident in Bashan (<130512>1 Chronicles 5:12). B.C. between 1093 and 782. Jaaphar Ibn-Tophail a distinguished Arab of the 12th century, deserves our notice as the author of a philosophical treatise entitled the History of Hoi IbnYokdan (translated into Latin by Pococke [Oxf. 1671] and into English by Ockley [Oxf. 1708, 8vo]). It aims to teach that “the light of nature is sufficient to lead mankind to a knowledge of the Deity without the aid of revelation. Of Jaaphar’s personal history we know scarcely anything. He is supposed to have died about 1198. See Gorton’s Biographical Dictionary, s.v. Ja’äre-or’egim (Hebrew Yaarey’ Oregim’, yre[}yi µygær]ao; Sept. Ajriwrgi>m, Vulg. Saltus polymitariuss), according to the present text of <102119>2 Samuel 21:19, a Bethlehemite, and the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath (the words “the brother of” are added in the A.Vers.). In the parallel passage (<132005>1 Chronicles 20:5), besides other differences. JAIR is found instead of Jaäre, and Oregin is omitted. Oregin is not elsewhere found as a proper name, nor is it a common word; and occurring as it does without doubt at the end of the verse (Auth.Vers. “weavers”), in a sentence exactly parallel to that in <091707>1 Samuel 17:7, it is not probable that it should also occur in the middle of the same. The conclusion of Kennicott (Dissertation, p. 80) appears to be a just one-that in the latter place it has been interpolated from the former, and that Jair or Jaär is the correct reading instead of 4 Jaare. SEE ELHANAN. Still the agreement of the ancient versions with the present Hebrew text affords a certain corroboration to that text, and should not be overlooked. SEE JAIR. The Peshito, followed by the Arabic, substitutes for Jaäre-Oregim the name “Malaph the weaver,” to the meaning of which we have no clew. The Targum, on the other hand, doubtless anxious to avoid any apparent contradiction of the narrative in 1 Samuel 17, substitutes David for Elhanan, Jesse for Jaäre, and is led by the word Oregin to relate or possibly to “invent a statement as to Jesse’s calling” And David, son of Jesse, weaver of the veils of the house of the sanctuary. who was of Bethlehem, slew Goliath the Gittite.” By Jerome Jaäre is literally translated “damask-weavers’ grove” (compare Quaestionis Hebraica on both passages). In Josephus’s account (Ant. 7, 12, 2) the Israelit-ish champion is said to have been “Nephan, the kinsman of David” (Nefa>nov oJ suggenh<v aujtou~); the word kinsman perhaps referring to the Jewish tradition of the identity of Jair and Jesse, or simply arising from the mention of Bethlehem. In the received Hebrew text Jaare is written with a small or suspended R, showing that in the opinion of the Masoretes that letter is uncertain. — Smith. The Jewish Midrashim generally identify David with Elhanan, and interpret Jaare-Oregim fancifully; e.g. (1) as David’s own name, “because he was great among the forest [of the] Oregim or Weavers [of the Law]; i.e. the Sanhedrim, who brought the Halachah (legal decisions) before him that he might weave it,” as it were (Jalkut on <102119>2 Samuel 21:19 sq.); or (2) it is David’s name as the son of a mother who “— wove veils for the sanctuary;” or (3) as an epithet of Jesse. SEE OREGIM. Ja’äsau [some Jac’sau] (Heb. Yaisav’, wci[}yi; Sept. translates ejpoi>hsan q. d. Wc[}yi, but the margin has Ya-ci. stay’, yci[}yi, fabricator, otherwise for hy;c;[}yi, made by Jehovah, and so Vulg. Jasi), an Israelite of the “sons” of Bani, who renounced his Gentile wife after the return from Babylon (<151037>Ezra 10:37). B.C. 459. 5 Jaä’siel (Heb. Yaasiel’, laeycæ[}yi, made by God; Sept. Ejssih>l and Ajsih>l; Vulg. Jasiel), a Mesobaite, and one of David’s body-guard (<131147>1 Chronicles 11:47, where the name is Anglicized “Jasiel”); probably the same with the son of Abner and viceroy over Benjamin (<132721>1 Chronicles 27:21). B.C. 1046-1014. Jaäzani’ah (Heb. Yaazanyah’, hy;n]zi[}yi , heard by Jehovah; also in the prolonged form Yaazanya’hu, Why;n]zi[}yi [-<122523>2 Kings 25:23; <260811>Ezekiel 8:11]; sometimes in the contracted form Yezanyah’, hy;n]ziy], “Jezaniah” [<244201>Jeremiah 42:1], or Yezanmyahu, Why;n]ziy], “Jezaniah” [<244008>Jeremiah 40:8]; Septuag. Ijezoni>av, but Ajzari>av in <244201>Jeremiah 42:1; vulg. Jezanias), the name of four men about the time of the Captivity. 1. The son of Jeremiah, and one of the chief Rechabites (i.e. sheik) whom the prophet tested with the offer of wine (<243503>Jeremiah 35:3). B.C. 606. SEE JEHONADAB. 2. The son of Shaphan, whom Ezekiel in his vision saw standing in the midst of the seventy elders offering idolatrous incense in the “chambers of imagery” at Jerusalem (<260811>Ezekiel 8:11). B.C. 593. 3. The son of Azur, and one of the “princes” among the twenty-five men seen in vision by the same prophet at the east gate of the Temple, and represented as encouraging the city in its wicked pride (<261101>Ezekiel 11:1). B.C. 593 4. The son of Hoshaiah, a Maachathite, who acted in conjunction with Johanan, the son of Kareah, after the downfall of Jerusalem, first in submitting to the Babylonian governor Gedaliah, and, after his assassination, in requesting Jeremiah’s advice as to the proper course for the people to pursue (<122523>2 Kings 25:23; <244008>Jeremiah 40:8; 42:1). He appears to have assisted in recovering Ishmael’s prey from his clutches (comp. <244111>Jeremiah 41:11). After that he probably went to Egypt with the rest (<244304>Jeremiah 43:4, 5). He is doubtless the same person called AZARIAH, the son of Hoshaiah, who rejected the divine counsel thus asked, and insisted on fleeing into Egypt (<244301>Jeremiah 43:1). B.C. 587. SEE JEREMIAH. 6 Jaäi’zer (Hebrew Yaazeyr’, ryze[}yi, <130681>1 Chronicles 6:81; 26:31; elsewhere the more abbreviated form rze[]yi Yazer’, helper; Sept. Ijazh>r [<102405>2 Samuel 24:5, Ejliezhr]; Auth. Vers. “Jaazer” in <042132>Numbers 21:32; 32:35; elsewhere “Jazer”), a city on the east of the Jordan, taken by the Israelites under Moses from the Amorites (<042132>Numbers 21:32), and assigned, with other neighboring places of Gilead, to the tribe of Gad (<043301>Numbers 33:1,3, 35; <061325>Joshua 13:25); also constituted a Levitical city (<062139>Joshua 21:39; <130681>1 Chronicles 6:81). It must have been a place of importance, for it gave its name to a large section of country. The “land of Jazer” was fertile, and its rich pastures attracted the attention of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh (<043201>Numbers 32:1).
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