Jobab:
sorrowful, hated
Jobab:
jo'-bab (yobhabh, perhaps "howling"; Iobab):
(1) "Son" of Joktan (Ge 10:29; 1Ch 1:23).
See TABLE OF NATIONS.
(2) An Edomite king (Ge 36:33,14; 1Ch 1:44,45).
(3) King of Madon (Jos 11:1).
(4) 1Ch 8:9; and (5) 1Ch 8:18, Benjamites.
The name is confused with that of Job in Septuagint of Job 42:17.
Jobab:
(a desert).
(1.) The last in order of the sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:29; 1 Chronicles 1:23).
(2.) One of the "kings" of Edom (Genesis 3:34; 1 Chronicles 1:44-45;.)
(3.) King of Madon; one of the northern chieftains who attempted to oppose Joshua's conquest and were routed by him at Meron. Joshua 11:1 only.
(4.) Head of a Benjamite house (1 Chronicles 8:9).
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