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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:

2 Samuel 24:4: "and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host from the presence"
2 Samuel 24:9: " And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king:"
1 Kings 1:7: "And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest:"
1 Kings 1:19: "of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant"
1 Kings 1:41: "it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet,"
1 Kings 2:5: "knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what"
1 Kings 2:22: "brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."
1 Kings 2:28: "Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after"
1 Kings 2:28: "to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned"
1 Kings 2:28: "not Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD,"
1 Kings 2:29: "king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD;"
1 Kings 2:30: "again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered"
1 Kings 2:31: "the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from"
1 Kings 2:33: "Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed forever: but upon David,"
1 Kings 11:15: "was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury"
1 Kings 11:16: "(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel,"
1 Kings 11:21: "with his fathers, and that Joab the captain was dead, Hadad"
1 Chronicles 2:16: "And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three."
1 Chronicles 4:14: "and Seraiah begot Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim;"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son went first up,"
1 Chronicles 11:8: "round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest"
1 Chronicles 11:20: "And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up"
1 Chronicles 11:26: "of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,"
1 Chronicles 11:39: "Naharai the Berothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,"
1 Chronicles 18:15: " And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud,"
1 Chronicles 19:8: "heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men."
1 Chronicles 19:10: " Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before"
1 Chronicles 19:14: " So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle;"
1 Chronicles 19:15: "Abishai and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 20:1: "at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power"
1 Chronicles 20:1: "But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed"
1 Chronicles 21:2: "And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go,"
1 Chronicles 21:3: " And Joab answered, The LORD make his people a hundred times so many more as they"
1 Chronicles 21:4: "word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all"
1 Chronicles 21:4: "prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel,"
1 Chronicles 21:5: " And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David."
1 Chronicles 21:6: "word was abominable to Joab."
1 Chronicles 26:28: "and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son had dedicated; and whosoever"
1 Chronicles 27:7: "month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in"
1 Chronicles 27:24: " Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell"
1 Chronicles 27:34: "and the general of the king's army was Joab."
Ezra 2:6: "of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve."
Ezra 8:9: "Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred"
Nehemiah 7:11: "of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen."
Psalms 60:1: "Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab and smote of Edom"









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