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# יָבֵישׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**Jobesh (-Gilead)** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jobesh (-Gilead) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d1_5b5_5d9_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָבֵשׁ³: n.pr.loc. pers. n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d1_5b5_5d9_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. et pers. n.pr.loc. יָבֵשׁ גִּלְעָד Jabesh of Gilead, 𝔊 Ιαβ(ε)ις Γαλααδ, exact site uknown, Ju 21:8, 9, 10, 12, 14 2 S 21:12; 1 Ch 10:11 (𝔊L Ιαβις τῆς Γαλααδ); יָבֵישׁ גִּלְעָד 1 S 11:1, 9; 31:11 2 S 2:4, 5 (in these three 𝔊L Ιαβις τῆς Γαλαατίδιτος); יָבֵישׁ 1 S 11:1, 3, 5, 9, 10; יָבֵשׁ 1 Ch 10:12; יָבֵ֑ישָׁה v 12; ‖ יָבֵ֫שָׁה 1 S 31:12, 13. n.pr.m. יָבֵשׁ father of Shallum 2 K 15:10, 13, 14.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jabesh (5); Jabesh (2); to (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 31:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.13/#tree)

וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־עַצְמֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ תַֽחַת־הָאֶ֖שֶׁל בְּיָבֵ֑שָׁה וַיָּצֻ֖מוּ שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) bones their and they.buried.\[them\] under the.tamarisk tree in Jabesh and they.fasted seven days

*JPS 1917:* And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

[1 Samuel 11:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.10/#tree)

וַֽיֹּאמְרוּ֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י יָבֵ֔ישׁ מָחָ֖ר נֵצֵ֣א אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם לָּ֔נוּ כְּכָל־הַטּ֖וֹב בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.said the.men of.Jabesh tomorrow will.we.go.out to you and you.will.do to us according to.all the good in eyes your

*JPS 1917:* And the men of Jabesh said: 'To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d1_5b5_5d9_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d1_5b5_5d9_5e9_5c1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).