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Jether

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(who excels). (1) Son of Gideon (Judg. 8:20²⁰And 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. 2:17¹⁷And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite. (1 Chronicles 2:17)). (3) Others (1 Chron. 2:32; 4:17; 7:38³²And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children. (1 Chronicles 2:32)
¹⁷And 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)
³⁸And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. (1 Chronicles 7:38)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

1. Gideon’s firstborn son (Judg. 8:20²⁰And 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 2:5,32⁵Moreover 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)
³²And 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. 2:17¹⁷And 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 17:25²⁵And 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. 2:32³²And 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. 4:17¹⁷And 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. 7:38³⁸And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. (1 Chronicles 7:38)).

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

a remnant: excellence