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“Jether” From
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(who excels). (1)
Son
of
Gideon
(
Judg. 8:20
20
And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth. (Judges 8:20)
). (2)
Father
of
Amasa
(
1 Chron. 2:17
17
And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite. (1 Chronicles 2:17)
). (3) Others (
1 Chron. 2:32; 4:17; 7:38
32
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children. (1 Chronicles 2:32)
17
And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. (1 Chronicles 4:17)
38
And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. (1 Chronicles 7:38)
).
“Jethro” From
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(his excellence). Honorary title (
Ex. 3:1
1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. (Exodus 3:1)
), of
Reuel
(
Ex. 2:18
18
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? (Exodus 2:18)
), or
Raguel
(
Num. 10:29
29
And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. (Numbers 10:29)
), the
father
-in-
law
of
Moses
(Ex. 18).
“Jether” From
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
Gideon
’s firstborn
son
(
Judg. 8:20
20
And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth. (Judges 8:20)
).
2.
An Ishmeelite,
father
of
Amasa
(
1 Kings 2:5,32
5
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. (1 Kings 2:5)
32
And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. (1 Kings 2:32)
;
1 Chron. 2:17
17
And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite. (1 Chronicles 2:17)
). He is called
ITHRA
, an Israelite, in
2 Samuel 17:25
25
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. (2 Samuel 17:25)
. He may have been an Ishmaelite by birth, and have become a
proselyte
.
3.
Son of
Jada
, of the tribe of
Judah
(
1 Chron. 2:32
32
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children. (1 Chronicles 2:32)
).
4.
Son of
Ezra
, of the tribe of Judah (
1 Chron. 4:17
17
And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. (1 Chronicles 4:17)
).
5.
Descendant of
Asher
(
1 Chron. 7:38
38
And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. (1 Chronicles 7:38)
).
“Jethro” From
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Father
-in-
law
of
Moses
, and a
priest
of
Midian
, with whom Moses spent forty years of his
life
. He brought to Moses his wife and their two sons soon after
Israel
had left
Egypt
. He advised Moses to appoint
judges
for minor cases. He rejoiced and blessed
God
for the
deliverance
He had given to His people, and said, “Now I know that
Jehovah
is greater than all
gods
: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.” He also took a burnt
offering
and sacrifices for God: and
Aaron
and all the
elders
of Israel came to eat
bread
with him before God. He thus prefigures the
joy
of the
Gentiles
in the
Lord
’s
salvation
and deliverance witnessed to them in His dealings with Israel (
Deut. 32:43
43
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. (Deuteronomy 32:43)
; Psa. 67; Psa. 117). He departed again to his own land (
Ex. 3:1
1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. (Exodus 3:1)
;
Ex. 4:18
18
And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. (Exodus 4:18)
;
Ex. 18:1-12
1
When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;
2
Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
3
And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4
And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5
And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6
And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7
And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
8
And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.
9
And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10
And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
12
And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God. (Exodus 18:1‑12)
).
He is apparently called
REUEL
in
Exodus 2:18
18
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? (Exodus 2:18)
; and
HOBAB
in
Numbers 10:29
29
And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. (Numbers 10:29)
, where
RAGUEL
is REUEL in the
Hebrew
. This
passage
says that Raguel, the Midianite, was the father of HOBAB, the father-in-law of Moses (see also
Judg. 4:11
11
Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh. (Judges 4:11)
), so that in
Exodus 2:18
18
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? (Exodus 2:18)
“father” may signify “grandfather.” Hobab may have been the personal name, and Jethro an official name. In
Judges 1:16
16
And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. (Judges 1:16)
Moses’ father-in-law is called a Kenite, but the exact signification of this term is not known.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
3500
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
Yether
Phonic:
yeh’-ther
Meaning:
the same as
3499
; Jether, the name of five or six Israelites and of one Midianite
KJV Usage:
Jether, Jethro. Compare
3503
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
a remnant: excellence
Potts’
Bible Proper Names
:
Excellence; prominence; superiority:―the name of five Israelites [JETHRO and ITHRAN], 1 Chron. 2:32. {Excellentia}
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“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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