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Lexicon :: Strong's H3097 - yô'āḇ

Aa
יוֹאָב
Transliteration
yô'āḇ
Pronunciation
yo-awb'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יוֹאָב Yôwʼâb, yo-awb'; from H3068 and H1; Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites:—Joab.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 145x

The KJV translates Strong's H3097 in the following manner: Joab (145x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 145x
The KJV translates Strong's H3097 in the following manner: Joab (145x).

  1. Joab = "Jehovah is father"

    1. son of David's sister Zeruiah and general of David's army

    2. a Judaite descendant of Kenaz

    3. a post exilic family

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יוֹאָב Yôwʼâb, yo-awb'; from H3068 and H1; Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites:—Joab.
STRONGS H3097: Abbreviations
יוֺאָב proper name, masculine (י׳ is father; compare אֲבִיָּהוּ, אֱלִיאָב, אֲבִיאֵל & references) —
1. David's sister's son & captain of his host (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰωαβ) 1 Samuel 26:6; 2 Samuel 2:13 + 100 times 2 Samuel (also 2 Samuel 20:6 for MT אֲבִישַׁי compare Syriac Version We Dr); 1 Kings 1:7 + 14 times 1 Kings; 1 Chronicles 2:16 + 22 times 1 Chronicles; Psalm 60:2.
2. a descendant of Judah 1 Chronicles 4:14 (but Greek Version of the LXX B LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰωβαβ).
3. a family-name after the exile Ezra 2:6 = Nehemiah 7:11 (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰωβαβ, Ἰωαβ) Ezra 8:9 (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰωαβ).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

26:6

2 Samuel

2:13; 20:6

1 Kings

1:7

1 Chronicles

2:16; 4:14

Ezra

2:6; 8:9

Nehemiah

7:11

Psalms

60:2

H3097

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3097 matches the Hebrew יוֹאָב (yô'āḇ),
which occurs 145 times in 124 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (1Sa 26:6–2Sa 17:25)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me to the tents of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13 - And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18 - There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - Then again Abner said to Asahel, Go to one side, do not keep on coming after me: why will you make me put an end to you? for then I will be shamed before your brother Joab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:28 - So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 - And Joab came back from fighting Abner: and when he had got all his men together, it was seen that nineteen of David's men, in addition to Asahel, were not with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - Now the servants of David and Joab had been out attacking a band of armed men, and they came back with a great store of goods taken in the fight: but Abner was no longer in Hebron with David, for he had sent him away and he had gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and his men came, news was given them that Abner, the son of Ner, had come to the king, who had let him go away again in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? when Abner came to you why did you send him away and let him go?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - And when Joab had come out from David, he sent men after Abner, and they overtook him at the water-spring of Sirah, and made him come back with them: but David had no knowledge of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - And David said to Joab and all the people who were with him, Go in grief and put haircloth about you, in sorrow for Abner. And King David went after the dead body.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:16 - And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:7 - And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position against him in front and at his back, he took the best of the men of Israel and put them in line against the Aramaeans;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:13 - Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6 - And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14 - Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16 - So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 - Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1 - Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - This he did, hoping that the face of this business might be changed: and my lord is wise, with the wisdom of the angel of God, having knowledge of everything on earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - And the king said to Joab, See now, I will do this thing: go then and Come back with the young man Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Then Joab, falling down on his face on the earth, gave the king honour and blessing; and Joab said, Today it is clear to your servant that I have grace in your eyes, my lord king, because the king has given effect to the request of his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:23 - So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - So Joab went to the king and said these words to him: and when the king had sent for him, Absalom came, and went down on his face on the earth before the king: and the king gave him a kiss.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

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