Strong's #3097: Yow'ab (pronounced yo-awb')
from 3068 and 1; Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites:--Joab.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yô'âb
Joab = "Jehovah is father"
1) son of David' s sister Zeruiah and general of David' s army
2) a Judaite descendant of Kenaz
3) a post exilic family
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: from H3068 and 1
Usage:
This word is used 145 times:
1 Samuel 26:6: "the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with"
2 Samuel 2:13: " And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together"
2 Samuel 2:14: "And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play"
2 Samuel 2:14: "arise, and play before us. And Joab said,"
2 Samuel 2:18: "three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light"
2 Samuel 2:22: "how my face to Joab thy brother?"
2 Samuel 2:24: " Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they"
2 Samuel 2:26: "Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour forever?"
2 Samuel 2:27: " And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely"
2 Samuel 2:28: " So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after"
2 Samuel 2:30: " And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together,"
2 Samuel 2:32: "of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went night,"
2 Samuel 3:22: "And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought"
2 Samuel 3:23: " When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab,"
2 Samuel 3:23: "was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son"
2 Samuel 3:24: " Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold,"
2 Samuel 3:26: " And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after"
2 Samuel 3:27: "And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate"
2 Samuel 3:29: "Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house;"
2 Samuel 3:29: "and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth"
2 Samuel 3:30: " So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain"
2 Samuel 3:31: "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that"
2 Samuel 8:16: " And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud"
2 Samuel 10:7: "heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men."
2 Samuel 10:9: " When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before"
2 Samuel 10:13: " And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled"
2 Samuel 10:14: "they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from"
2 Samuel 11:1: "to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants him, and all Israel;"
2 Samuel 11:6: "And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah"
2 Samuel 11:6: "saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent"
2 Samuel 11:7: "unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war"
2 Samuel 11:11: "abide in tents; and my lord Joab, of my lord, are encamped in"
2 Samuel 11:14: "wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah."
2 Samuel 11:16: "And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah"
2 Samuel 11:17: "went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants"
2 Samuel 11:18: " Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;"
2 Samuel 11:22: "all that Joab had sent"
2 Samuel 11:25: "Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this"
2 Samuel 12:26: " And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal"
2 Samuel 12:27: " And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah,"
2 Samuel 14:1: " Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward"
2 Samuel 14:2: " And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman,"
2 Samuel 14:3: "this manner unto him. So Joab put in her mouth."
2 Samuel 14:19: "And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman"
2 Samuel 14:19: "my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade"
2 Samuel 14:20: "this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing:"
2 Samuel 14:21: "And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done"
2 Samuel 14:22: " And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked"
2 Samuel 14:22: "and thanked the king: and Joab said, thy servant knoweth"
2 Samuel 14:23: " So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem."
