Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
יוֹאָב
- Transliteration
- Yôwʼâb
- Pronunciation
- yo-awb'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 145
Glosses
Joab.
Lexicon definition
Joab, the name of three Israelites
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Joab
Paternity; voluntary Joab is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “paternity; voluntary.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- H3097
- Hebrew
- יוֹאָב · Yôwʼâb
- Name meaning
- paternity; voluntary According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
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H3097
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Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Joab
paternity; voluntary
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Joab
Indexed occurrences: 142
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All Scripture references124 references
2 Samuel 81
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Ezra 2
Nehemiah 1
Psalms 2
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
JOAB
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for JOAB.
Indexed references: 10
Scripture references:
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Joab
Indexed references: 1
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Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Joab
Meaning:
paternity; voluntary
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Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: topics
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
Ancient Context14 items
Josephus Antiquities Whiston
How David Reigned Over One Tribe At Hebron While The Son Of Saul Reigned Over The Rest Of The Multitude; And How, In The Civil War Which Then Arose Asahel And Abner Were Slain.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 1
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How David Laid Siege To Jerusalem; And When He Had Taken The City, He Cast The Canaanites Out Of It, And Brought In The Jews To Inhabit Therein.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 3
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How David Brought Under The Philistines, And The Moabites, And The Kings Of Sophene And Of Damascus, And Of The Syrians As Also The Idumeans, In War; And How He Made A League With The King Of Hamath; And Was Mindful Of The Friendship That Jonathan, The Son Of Saul, Had Borne Him.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 5
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How The War Was Waged Against The Ammonites And Happily Concluded.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 6
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How David Fell In Love With Bathsheba, And Slew Her Husband Uriah, For Which He Is Reproved By Nathan.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 7
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How Absalom Murdered Amnon, Who Had Forced His Own Sister; And How He Was Banished And Afterwards Recalled By David.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 8
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How, When Absalom Was Beaten, He Was Caught In A Tree By His Hair And Was Slain
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 10
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How David, When He Had Recovered His Kingdom, Was Reconciled To Shimei, And To Ziba; And Showed A Great Affection To Barzillai; And How, Upon The Rise Of A Sedition, He Made Amasa Captain Of His Host, In Order To Pursue Seba; Which Amasa Was Slain By Joab.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 11
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How The Hebrews Were Delivered From A Famine When The Gibeonites Had Caused Punishment To Be Inflicted For Those Of Them That Had Been Slain: As Also, What Great Actions Were Performed Against The Philistines By David, And The Men Of Valor About Him.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 12
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That When David Had Numbered the People, They Were Punished; and How the Divine Compassion Restrained That Punishment.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 13
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That David Made Great Preparations For The House Of God; And That, Upon Adonijah's Attempt To Gain The Kingdom, He Appointed Solomon To Reign.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 14
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What Charge David Gave To his Son Solomon At The Approach Of His Death, And How Many Things He Left Him For The Building Of The Temple.
Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 15
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How Solomon, When He Had Received The Kingdom Took Off His Enemies.
Antiquities Book 8, Chapter 1
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How Solomon Grew Rich, And Fell Desperately In Love With Women And How God, Being Incensed At It, Raised Up Ader And Jeroboam Against Him. Concerning The Death Of Solomon.
Antiquities Book 8, Chapter 7
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Topic
BETH-JOAB
Nave’s Topical Bible references for BETH-JOAB.
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JOAB
Nave’s Topical Bible references for JOAB.
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Cushite
(1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam. 18:32). (2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer. 36:14). (3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1). (4.) Moses married a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.
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Joab
paternity; voluntary
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Numbering of the people
Besides the numbering of the tribes mentioned in the history of the wanderings in the wilderness, we have an account of a general census of the whole nation from Dan to Beersheba, which David gave directions to Joab to make (1 Chr. 21:1). Joab very reluctantly began to carry out the king's command. This act of David in ordering a numbering of the people arose from pride and a self-glorifying spirit. It indicated a reliance on his part on an arm of flesh, an estimating of his power not by the divine favour but by the material resources of his kingdom. He thought of military achievement and of conquest, and forgot that he was God's vicegerent. In all this he sinned against God. While Joab was engaged in the census, David's heart smote him, and he became deeply conscious of his fault; and in profound humiliation he confessed, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done." The prophet Gad was sent to him to put before him three dreadful alternatives (2 Sam. 24:13; for "seven years" in this verse, the LXX. and 1 Chr. 21:12 have "three years"), three of Yahweh's four sore judgments (Ezek. 14:21). Two of these David had already experienced. He had fled for some months before Absalom, and had suffered three years' famine on account of the slaughter of the Gibeonites. In his "strait" David said, "Let me fall into the hands of the Lord." A pestilence broke out among the people, and in three days swept away 70,000. At David's intercession the plague was stayed, and at the threshing-floor of Araunah (q.v.), where the destroying angel was arrested in his progress, David erected an altar, and there offered up sacrifies to God (2 Chr. 3:1). The census, so far as completed, showed that there were at least 1,300,000 fighting men in the kingdom, indicating at that time a population of about six or seven millions in all. (See [446]CENSUS.)
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Sirah
Retiring, a well from which Joab's messenger brought back Abner (2 Sam. 3:26). It is now called Ain Sarah, and is situated about a mile from Hebron, on the road to the north.
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Tekoa, Tekoah
Pitching of tents; fastening down, a town of Judah, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem, and visible from the city. From this place Joab procured a "wise woman," who pretended to be in great affliction, and skilfully made her case known to David. Her address to the king was in the form of an apologue, similar to that of Nathan (2 Sam. 12:1-6). The object of Joab was, by the intervention of this woman, to induce David to bring back Absalom to Jerusalem (2 Sam. 14:2, 4, 9). This was also the birth-place of the prophet Amos (1:1). It is now the village of Teku'a, on the top of a hill among ruins, 5 miles south of Bethlehem, and close to Beth-haccerem ("Herod's mountain").
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