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# יוֹאָח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3098

**Joah** — used 11 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

Joah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3098/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹאָח: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3098/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ is brother; cf. אֲחִיָּהוּ & reff.)— son of Asaph the chronicler in Hezekiah’s time 2 K 18:18, 26, 37 (𝔊 Ἰωας, 𝔊L Ἰωαχ), = Is 36:3, 11, 22 (𝔊 Ἰωαχ). Levites son of Zimmah 1 Ch 6:6; id. 2 Ch 29:12(×2) (𝔊 Ἰωα, Ἰωαχ(α) Ἰωδααθ). son of Joahaz the chronicler in Josiah’s time 2 Ch 34:8 (𝔊 Ἰωαχ, Ἰωας). a Levite, son of Obed-edom 1 Ch 26:4 (𝔊 Ἰωαθ, Ἰωαα, Ἰωαδ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Joah (9); \[was\] Joah (1); of Joah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.6/#tree)

יוֹאָ֤ח בְּנוֹ֙ עִדּ֣וֹ בְנ֔וֹ זֶ֥רַח בְּנ֖וֹ יְאָתְרַ֥י בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Joah son his Iddo son his Zerah son his Jeatherai son his

*JPS 1917:* Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

[Isaiah 36:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.3/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֥א אֵלָ֛יו אֶלְיָקִ֥ים בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּ֖הוּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וְשֶׁבְנָא֙ הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְיוֹאָ֥ח בֶּן־אָסָ֖ף הַמַּזְכִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out to him Eliakim the.son of.Hilkiah who \[was\].over the house and Shebna the secretary and Joah the.son of.Asaph the recorder

*JPS 1917:* Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3098.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3098/): 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).