Jehoiarib

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("Jehovah will defend".)  1 Chronicles 9:10;  1 Chronicles 24:7. A descendant of his is mentioned in  Nehemiah 11:10, also descendant representatives of nearly all the old courses ( 1 Chronicles 12:6;  1 Chronicles 12:19). But the Talmud makes these professed representatives of the old 24 courses to have been not really descendants from the original heads, except from four of them, Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur, and Harim, for which the Babylonian Talmud has Joiarib (as implied in  Ezra 2:36-39;  Nehemiah 7:39-42); and that these four were subdivided into six each to make the 24; and that the 24 took the old names ( Luke 1:5).

The Asmonaean family and Josephus belonged to the course of Jehoiarib. The Talmud view is not favored by  Nehemiah 10:2-8, which enumerates 21 courses, of Nehemiah's time:  Nehemiah 12:1-7;  Nehemiah 12:19, also enumerates 22 courses of Zerubbabel's time, among them Jehoiarib, of whose course Mattenai was chief in Jehoiakim's days. Jehoiarib is added in  Nehemiah 12:6, not appearing in  Nehemiah 10:2-8; from which Lord A. C. Hervey infers that Jehoiarib did return from Babylon, but later than Zerubbabel's time, and that his name was added to the list subsequently.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Jehoiarib (  1 Chronicles 9:10;   1 Chronicles 24:7 , elsewhere Joiarib  ; called in 1M  Malachi 2:1 Joarib ). The name of one of the twenty-four courses of priests; first in David’s time (  1 Chronicles 24:7 ), but seventeenth in the time of Zerub. (  Nehemiah 12:6 ) and of the high priest Joiakim (  Nehemiah 12:19 ). The name is omitted, probably by accident, in the list of the priests that ‘sealed to the covenant’ (  Nehemiah 10:1-39 ). The clan is mentioned among those that dwelt in Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (  Nehemiah 11:10 ).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 9:10 Nehemiah 12:6 2 1 Chronicles 24:7 Nehemiah 12:19Joiarib

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 9:10 24:7 Ezra 2:36-39 Nehemiah 7:39-42

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Priest in Jerusalem, on the return from exile.  1 Chronicles 9:10 .

2. Head of the first course of priests.  1 Chronicles 24:7 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jeho-i'arib. (whom Jehovah defends). Head of the first of the twenty-four courses of priests.  1 Chronicles 24:7.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrew Yehô yarib', יְהוֹיָרַיב whose cause Jehovah defends; Sept. Ι᾿ωαρείβ or Ι᾿αρείβ v.r. Ι᾿ωαρίμ;  1 Chronicles 9:10;  1 Chronicles 24:7 only; elsewhere, both in Heb. and A.V., the name is abbreviated to Joiarib), a distinguished priest at Jerusalem ( 1 Chronicles 9:10), head of the first of the twenty-four sacerdotal "courses" ( 1 Chronicles 24:7). B.C. 1014. Of these courses, only four are mentioned as having returned from Babylon — those of Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur, and Harim ( Ezra 2:36-39;  Nehemiah 7:39-42); and Jewish tradition says that each of these was divided into six, so as to preserve the original number with the original names (Talm. Hieros. Taanith , ch. 4, p. 68, Colossians 1 in ed. Bomberg). This might account for our finding, at a later period, Mattathias described as of the course of Joarib ( 1 Maccabees 2:1), even though this course did not return from Babylon (Prideaux, Connection , 1, 136, 8th ed.). We find, however, that some of the descendants of Jehoiarib did return from Babylon (1 Chronicles 9:10;  Nehemiah 11:10; (See Jedaiah) ); we find, also, that in subsequent lists other of the priestly courses are mentioned as returning, and in one of these that of Jehoiarib is expressly mentioned ( Nehemiah 10:2-8;  Nehemiah 12:1-7), and mention is made of Mattenai as chief of the house of Joiarib in the days of Jeshua ( Nehemiah 12:19). The probability, therefore, is, that the course of Jehoiarib did go up, but at a later date, perhaps, than those four mentioned in  Ezra 2:36-39, and  Nehemiah 7:39-42. To the course of Joiarib Josephus tells us he belonged (Ant. 11, 6, 1; Life, § 1). (See Priest).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jē̇ - hoi´a - rib ( יהויריב , yehōyārı̄bh , "Yahweh pleads" or "contends"): A priest in Jerusalem (  1 Chronicles 9:10 ); the name occurs again in  1 Chronicles 24:7 as the name of a family among. the 24 courses of priests = the family Joiarib ( יויריב , yōyārı̄bh , same meaning as above,  Nehemiah 1:2 ,  Nehemiah 1:6 ), the head of which is Matrenai in  Nehemiah 12:19 . In  Nehemiah 11:10 we should probably read ""Jedaiah and Joiarib" for "Jedaiah the son of Joiarib" (compare   1 Chronicles 9:10 ). Jehoiarib = Joarib in 1 Macc 2:1.