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# יוֹבָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3103

**Jobab** — 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

Jobab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3103/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹבָב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3103/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Sab. n.pr. יהיבב GlaserSkizze ii. 303 ff.)— ‘son’ of Yoḳtân Gn 10:29 = 1 Ch 1:23, 𝔊 Ιωβαβ. a king in Edom Gn 36:33, 34 = 1 Ch 1:44, 45, 𝔊 Ιω(α)βαβ. king of Madon (Northern Canaan) Jos 11:1, 𝔊 Ιω(β)αβ. Benjamites: 1 Ch 8:9, 𝔊 Ιωβαβ. 1 Ch 8:18, 𝔊 Ιω(β)αβ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jobab (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.18/#tree)

וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧י וְיִזְלִיאָ֛ה וְיוֹבָ֖ב בְּנֵ֥י אֶלְפָּֽעַל׃

*Word for word:* and Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab \[were\].the.sons of.Elpaal

*JPS 1917:* and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, were the sons of Elpaal.

[Genesis 36:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.33/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת בָּ֑לַע וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו יוֹבָ֥ב בֶּן־זֶ֖רַח מִבָּצְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Bela and he.reigned in place.of.him Jobab the.son of.Zerah from Bozrah

*JPS 1917:* And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3103.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3103/): 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).