Jashub

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

JASHUB. 1. Issachar’s fourth son ( Num 26:24 ,   1 Chronicles 7:1; called in   Genesis 46:13 Iob  ; patron. Jashubites (  Numbers 26:24 ). 2. A returned exile who married a foreigner (  Ezra 10:29 ); called in   Esther 9:30  Esther 9:30 Jasubus .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Ezra 10:29 .

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Jashub'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/jashub.html. 1897.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ja'shub. (He Turns).

1. The third son of Issachar, and founder of the family of the Jashubites.  Numbers 26;24;  1 Chronicles 7:1. (B.C. 1706).

2. One of the sons of Bani, who had to put away his foreign wife.  Ezra 10:29. (B.C. 459).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 26:24 Genesis 46:13  Job 2:1 Ezra 10:29 3 Isaiah 7:3 Joshua 17:7

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Third son of Issachar.  Numbers 26:24;  1 Chronicles 7:1 . Apparently the same as JOB in  Genesis 46:13 .

2. One who had married a strange wife.  Ezra 10:29 .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1.  Numbers 26:24;  1 Chronicles 7:1; JOB by contraction in  Genesis 46:13.

2.  Ezra 10:29.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

[or Jash'ub] (Heb. Yashub', יָשׁוּב , Returner; once by error, יָשַׁיב, Yashib', in text  1 Chronicles 7:1; Samar. Pent. in Numbers Yosheb', יושב; Sept. Ι᾿ασούβ ), the name of two men, or, perhaps, the last is rather a place. (See Shear-Jashub).

1. The third named of the four sons of Issachar ( 1 Chronicles 7:1;  Numbers 26:24); called JOB (perhaps by contraction or corruption [or possibly only by substitution. both having the same meaning, one from שׂוּב, and the other from אוּב ]) in the parallel passage ( Genesis 46:13). B.C. 1856. His descendants were called JASHUBITES (Hebrew Yashubi',

יָשֻׁבַי , Sept. Ι᾿ασουβί,  Numbers 26:24).

2. One of the "sons" (? former residents) of Bani, who divorced his Gentile wife after the Exile ( Ezra 10:29). B.C. 459.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jā´shub , jash´ub ( ישׁוּב , yāshūbh  ; ישׁיב , yāshı̄bh , in Chronicles, but Ḳerē , ישׁוּב , yāshūbh , "he returns"):

(1) In  Numbers 26:24;  1 Chronicles 7:1 , a "son" (clan) of Issachar.  Genesis 46:13 has incorrectly Iob, but Septuagint Jashub.

(2) In  Ezra 10:29 , one of those who had married foreign wives = "Jasubus" in 1 Esdras 9:30.

(3) In  Isaiah 7:3 , part of the name Shear-Jashub (which see).