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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 3 / 3 (1Ch 11:6–Psa 60:1)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6 - David had said, “Whoever leads the attack on the Jebusites will become commander-in-chief.” Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and so he received the command.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:8 - He built up the city around it, from the terraces[fn] to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:20 - Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the Three. He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and so he became as famous as the Three.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26 - The mighty warriors were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:39 - Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:15 - Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:8 - On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 - Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:14 - Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they too fled before his brother Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord’s subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - The king’s word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5 - Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:6 - But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king’s command was repulsive to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:28 - And everything dedicated by Samuel the seer and by Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner and Joab son of Zeruiah, and all the other dedicated things were in the care of Shelomith and his relatives.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:7 - The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab; his son Zebadiah was his successor. There were 24,000 men in his division.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24 - Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. God’s wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering, and the number was not entered in the book[fn] of the annals of King David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:34 - Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada son of Benaiah and by Abiathar. Joab was the commander of the royal army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:6 -
of Pahath-Moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab)2,812

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:9 - of the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:11 -
of Pahath-Moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab)2,818

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam[fn] of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim[fn] and Aram Zobah,[fn] and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us; you have been angry—now restore us!

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