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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51933" /> == | | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_5257" /> == |
| <p> <strong> JASON </strong> . This Greek name was adopted by many [[Jews]] whose [[Hebrew]] designation was Joshua (Jesus). <strong> 1. </strong> The son of [[Eleazar]] deputed to make a treaty with the Romans, and father of [[Antipater]] who was later sent on a similar errand, unless two different persons are meant ( 1Ma 8:17; 1Ma 12:16; 1Ma 14:22 ). <strong> 2. </strong> [[Jason]] of Cyrene, an author, of whose history 2 Mac. (see 2Ma 2:23; 2Ma 2:26 ) is an epitome (written after b.c. 160). <strong> 3. </strong> Joshua the high priest, who ousted his brother [[Onias]] iii. from the office in b.c. 174 ( 2Ma 4:7 ff.), but was himself driven out three years later, and died among the Lacedæmonians at [[Sparta]] ( 2Ma 5:9 f.). <strong> 4. </strong> In Acts 17:6 ff. a Jason was St. Paul’s host at Thessalonica, from whom the politarchs took bail for his good behaviour, thus (as it seems) preventing St. Paul’s return to [[Macedonia]] for a long time (see art. Paul the Apostle, § 8). The Jason who sends greetings from [[Corinth]] in Romans 16:21 , a ‘kinsman’ of St. Paul ( <em> i.e. </em> a Jew), is probably the same man. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p> | | <p> ''''' jā´sun ''''' ( Ἰάσων , < i> ''''' Iásōn ''''' </ i> ): A common name among the Hellenizing [[Jews]] who used it for Jesus or Joshua , probably connecting it with the Greek verb <i> ''''' iáshthai ''''' </i> ( "to heal"). < /p> < p> (1) Son of Eleazar, sent (161 bc) by [[ Judas]] Maccabeus with other deputies to Rome "to make a league of amity and confederacy" ( 1 [[ Maccabees]] 8:17; Josephus, < i> Ant </ i> , Xii , x, 6), and perhaps to be identified with ( 2). < /p> < p> ( 2) The father of [[ Antipater]] who went as ambassador of [[ Jonathan]] to Rome in 144 bc ( 1 Maccabees 12:16 ; 14: 22; < i> Ant </ i> , Xiii , v, 8). </p> <p> ( 3) [[Jason ]] of Cyrene, a [[ Jewish]] historian, who is known only from what is told of him in 2 Maccabees 2:19-23 . 2 Macc is in fact simply an abridgment in one book of the 5 books written by Jason on the Jewish wars of liberation. He must have written after 162 bc, as his books include the wars under [[ Antiochus]] Eupator. </p> <p> (4) Jason the high priest, second son of Simon 2 and brother of [[Onias]] III. The change of name from Jesus (Josephus, <i> Ant </i> , Xii , v) was part of the Hellenizing policy favored by Antiochus [[ Epiphanes]] from whom he purchased the high-priesthood by a large bribe, thus excluding his elder brother from the office ( 2 Maccabees 4: 7-26 ). He did everything in his power to introduce Greek customs and Greek life among the Jews. He established a gymnasium in Jerusalem, so that even the priests neglected the altars and the sacrifices, and hastened to be partakers of the " unlawful allowance" in the palaestra. The writer of 2 Macc calls him "that ungodly wretch" and "vile" Jason. He even sent deputies from [[ Jerusalem]] to [[ Tyre]] to take part in the worship of Hercules; but what he sent for sacrifices, the deputies expended on the "equipment of galleys. " After 3 years of this Hellenizing work he was supplanted in 172 bc in the favor of Antiochus by [[ Menelaus]] who gave a large bribe for the high priest's office. Jason took refuge with the Ammonites; on hearing that Antiochus was dead he tried with some success to drive out Menelaus, but ultimately failed ( 2 Maccabees 5:5 ff). He took refuge with the [[Ammonites]] again, and then with Aretas, the Arabian, and finally with the Lacedaemonians, where he hoped for protection "as being connected by race, " and there "perished- miserably in a strange land. " </p> < p> (5) A name mentioned in Acts 17:5-9 and in Romans 16:21 . See following article. </p> |
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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56284" /> ==
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| <p> ( Ἰάσων) </p> <p> Jason is a Greek name, often adopted by Jews of the Dispersion, sometimes as not unlike the names [[ Joseph]] or Joshua. </p> <p> <b> 1 </b> . In Acts 17:5 ff., the host of St. Paul and Silas at Thessalonica, who was seized with other converts and dragged before the politarchs. These authorities bound over Jason and his friends in security that there should be no further disturbance and perhaps that St. Paul should leave the city and not return (see Ramsay, <i> St. Paul the [[Traveller]] and the Roman [[ Citizen]] </i> , 1895, p. 230f.). </p> <p> <b> 2 </b> . In Romans 16:21, a person whose greetings St. Paul sends to his readers with greetings from Timothy, Lucius, and Sosipater, all of whom he describes as his ‘kinsmen, ’ <i> i.e. </i> fellow-Jews or perhaps members of the same tribe. It is quite probable that <b> 1 </b> and <b> 2 </b> are the same man. </p> <p> T. B. Allworthy. </p> | |
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| == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36011" /> ==
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| <p> Graecized from Joshua. The [[Thessalonian]] who received Paul and Silas ( Acts 17:5-7; Acts 17:9), whom the mob therefore, after assaulting his house, dragged before the magistrates. Jason had to give security before he was let go. In Romans 16:21 Paul sends Jason's salutations from Corinth, calling him his "kinsman" or fellow tribesman, or fellow countryman, as the word is used Romans 9:3. </p>
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| == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73201" /> ==
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| <p> '''Ja'son.''' ''(One Who Will Heal).'' Jason, called the Thessalonian, entertained Paul and Silas, and was in consequence, attacked by the [[Jewish]] mob. Acts 17:5-7; Acts 17:9. (A.D. 48). He is probably the same as the Jason mentioned in Romans 16:21. It is conjectured that Jason and Secundus, Acts 20:4, were the same person. </p>
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| == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_41497" /> ==
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| Acts 17:5 Acts 17:6-7 Romans 16:21 <p> 2. A Jewish high priest during the final years of Seleucid control of Palestine. His Greek name reflects the [[Hellenistic]] influence that increasingly permeated Jewish life during the period before the Maccabean revolt. See Intertestamental History. </p>
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| == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70283" /> ==
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| <p> [[Jason]] ( ''Jâ'Son'' ), ''One Who Will Heal.'' A Thessalonian, and probably a relative of Paul, whom he entertained, and in consequence received rough treatment at the [[Hands]] of the unbelieving Jews. Acts 17:1-34; with Romans 16:21. </p>
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| == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16407" /> ==
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| <p> A kinsman and host of Paul, at Thessalonica. His person and goods were interposed to shield the apostle from the rabble, A. D. 52, Acts 17:5-10 . He seems also to have been with him at Corinth, five years afterwards, Romans 16:21 . </p>
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| == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66925" /> ==
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| <p> The host of Paul and Silas at Thessalonica, whose house was attacked by the Jews, and himself arrested. Acts 17:5-9 . Perhaps the same as the one at Rome described as a kinsman of Paul. Romans 16:21 . </p>
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| == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32251" /> ==
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| == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75184" /> ==
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| <p> A mythological Greek hero, son of Æson, king of Iolcos; brought up by the centaur Chiron, was supplanted on the throne by his half-brother Pelias; undertook the leadership of the Argonautic expedition, assisted by [[Medea]] in this enterprise; he took her to wife, but cast her off for Creusa, whom Medea to avenge herself killed, with her father and her two sons by Jason, she herself escaping to [[Athens]] in a chariot drawn by winged dragons; Jason took refuge from her fury in the sanctuary of [[Poseidon]] near Corinth, where the timber of the ship Argo deposited there breaking up fell upon him and crushed him to death. </p>
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| == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15950" /> ==
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| <p> Ja´son, a kinsman of St. Paul, and his host at Thessalonica, where the Jews forced his house in order to seize the Apostle. Not finding the Apostle, they dragged Jason himself and some other converts before the magistrates, who released them with an admonition (A.D. 53). Jason appears to have accompanied the [[Apostle]] to Corinth . </p>
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| <ref name="term_51933"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/jason Jason from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | | <ref name="term_5257"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/jason+(1) Jason from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> |
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| <ref name="term_56284"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/jason Jason from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_36011"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/jason Jason from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_73201"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/jason Jason from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_41497"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/jason Jason from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_70283"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/jason Jason from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_16407"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/jason Jason from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_66925"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/jason Jason from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_32251"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/jason Jason from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_75184"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/jason Jason from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_15950"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/jason Jason from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref>
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
jā´sun ( Ἰάσων , Iásōn ): A common name among the Hellenizing Jews who used it for Jesus or Joshua, probably connecting it with the Greek verb iáshthai ("to heal").
(1) Son of Eleazar, sent (161 bc) by Judas Maccabeus with other deputies to Rome "to make a league of amity and confederacy" ( 1 Maccabees 8:17; Josephus, Ant , Xii , x, 6), and perhaps to be identified with (2).
(2) The father of Antipater who went as ambassador of Jonathan to Rome in 144 bc ( 1 Maccabees 12:16; 14:22; Ant , Xiii , v, 8).
(3) Jason of Cyrene, a Jewish historian, who is known only from what is told of him in 2 Maccabees 2:19-23 . 2 Macc is in fact simply an abridgment in one book of the 5 books written by Jason on the Jewish wars of liberation. He must have written after 162 bc, as his books include the wars under Antiochus Eupator.
(4) Jason the high priest, second son of Simon 2 and brother of Onias III. The change of name from Jesus (Josephus, Ant , Xii , v) was part of the Hellenizing policy favored by Antiochus Epiphanes from whom he purchased the high-priesthood by a large bribe, thus excluding his elder brother from the office ( 2 Maccabees 4:7-26 ). He did everything in his power to introduce Greek customs and Greek life among the Jews. He established a gymnasium in Jerusalem, so that even the priests neglected the altars and the sacrifices, and hastened to be partakers of the "unlawful allowance" in the palaestra. The writer of 2 Macc calls him "that ungodly wretch" and "vile" Jason. He even sent deputies from Jerusalem to Tyre to take part in the worship of Hercules; but what he sent for sacrifices, the deputies expended on the "equipment of galleys." After 3 years of this Hellenizing work he was supplanted in 172 bc in the favor of Antiochus by Menelaus who gave a large bribe for the high priest's office. Jason took refuge with the Ammonites; on hearing that Antiochus was dead he tried with some success to drive out Menelaus, but ultimately failed ( 2 Maccabees 5:5 ff). He took refuge with the Ammonites again, and then with Aretas, the Arabian, and finally with the Lacedaemonians, where he hoped for protection "as being connected by race," and there "perished-miserably in a strange land."
(5) A name mentioned in Acts 17:5-9 and in Romans 16:21 . See following article.
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