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# יֶתֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3500

**Jether** — 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

Jether [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3500/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫תֶר³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3500/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (abundance; on form and meaning of this and the foll. n.pr. v. LagBN52, 198)— father of Moses’ wife Ex 4:18 a (E; prob. textual error, elsewhere יִתְרוֹ, q.v.) eldest son of Gideon Ju 8:20, 𝔊 Ιεθερ. father of Amasa 1 K 2:5, 32 1 Ch 2:17, 𝔊 Ιεθερ; = יִתְרָא 2 S 17:25, 𝔊 Ιοθερ, Ιοθορ; 𝔊L Ιεθερ. men of Judah, 𝔊 Ιεθερ: 1 Ch 2:32(×2). 1 Ch 4:17. a man of Asher 1 Ch 7:38 (= יִתְרָן v 37), 𝔊 Ιεθερ, A Ιεθηρ, 𝔊L \[v 39\] Εθραν.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jether (3); Jether (2); \[was\] Jether (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.38/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י יֶ֑תֶר יְפֻנֶּ֥ה וּפִסְפָּ֖ה וַאְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Jether \[were\].Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

[1 Chronicles 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/#tree)

וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֑א וַאֲבִ֣י עֲמָשָׂ֔א יֶ֖תֶר הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Abigail she.bore (et) Amasa and the.father of.Amasa \[was\].Jether the Ishmaelite

*JPS 1917:* And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3500.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3500/): 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).