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Strong's #3003: Yabesh (pronounced yaw-bashe')

the same as 3002 (also Yabeysh {yaw-bashe'}; often with the addition of 1568, i.e. Jabesh of Gilad); Jobesh, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine:--Jobesh ((-Gilead)).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

yâbêsh / yâbêysh

Jabesh = "dry"

1) a town in the territory of Gilead; according to Eusebius, it is beyond the Jordan, 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Pella, on the mountain road to Gerasa; site unknown but may be modern ' Wadi Yabes' (noun proper locative)

2) father of Shallum, the 15th king of the northern kingdom (noun proper masculine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: the same as H3002 (also Yabeysh)



Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

Judges 21:8: "And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:9: "and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there."
Judges 21:10: "and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:12: "And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young"
Judges 21:14: "which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed"
1 Samuel 11:1: "came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh"
1 Samuel 11:1: "Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash,"
1 Samuel 11:3: "And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send"
1 Samuel 11:5: "him of the men of Jabesh."
1 Samuel 11:9: "Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by that time the sun be hot,"
1 Samuel 11:9: "And the messengers came and showed of Jabesh; and they were glad."
1 Samuel 11:10: "Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all"
1 Samuel 31:11: "And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines"
1 Samuel 31:12: "from the wall of Beth-shan, to Jabesh, and burnt them there."
1 Samuel 31:13: "and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days."
2 Samuel 2:4: "David, saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried"
2 Samuel 2:5: "messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed"
2 Samuel 21:12: "his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen"
2 Kings 15:10: "And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people,"
2 Kings 15:13: "Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah"
2 Kings 15:14: "and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned"
1 Chronicles 10:11: "And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines"
1 Chronicles 10:12: "and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones"
1 Chronicles 10:12: "their bones the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days."









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