JESUITES jes'-u-its. See ISHVI. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESUITES'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESURUN je-su'-run, jes'-u-run. See JESHURUN. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESURUN'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESTING jest'-ing: Used from Tyndale down as the translation of eutrapelia (Ephesians 5:4). Aristotle uses the original in his Ethics iv.14 as an equivalent of "quick-witted," from its root meaning "something easily turned," adding that, since the majority of people love excessive jesting, the word is apt to be degraded. This is the case here, whe

JESUI jes'-u-i. See ISHVI. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESUI'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESIMIEL je-sim'-i-el (yesimi'el, "God establishes"): A prince of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:36). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESIMIEL'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESSE jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = "wealthy"; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277, conjectures yesh yah, "Yahweh exists"; Wellhausen (1 Samuel 14:49) explains it as 'abhishay (see ABISHAI); Iessai; Ruth 4:17,22; 1 Samuel 16; 17; 20; 22; 25:10; 2 Samuel 20:1; 23:1; 1 Kings 12:16; 1 Chronicles 10:14; 12:18; Psalms 72:20; Is

JESIAS je-si'-as (Iesias; the King James Version Josias (1 Esdras 8:33)): Corresponding to Jeshaiah, son of Athaliah (Ezra 8:7). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESIAS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESHURUN je-shu'-run, jesh'-u-run (yeshurun, "upright one," Deuteronomy 32:15; 33:5,26; Isaiah 44:2): Septuagint translates it "the beloved one" egapemenos, the perfect participle passive of agapao), and in Isaiah 44:2 adds "Israel"; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) has dilectus in Deuteronomy 32:15, elsewhere rectissimus; Aquila, Symm

JESIAH je-si'-a (1 Chronicles 23:20 the King James Version). See ISSHIAH. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESIAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESHOHAIAH jesh-o-ha'-ya, jesh-o-hi'-a (yeshochayah, meaning unknown): A prince in Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:36). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESHOHAIAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESHUA jesh'-u-a, je-shu'-a (yeshua`): A place occupied by the children of Judah after their return from captivity (Nehemiah 11:26), evidently, from the places named with it, in the extreme South of Judah. It may correspond with the Shema of Joshua 15:26, and possibly to the Sheba of 19:2. The site may be Khirbet Sa`weh, a ruin upon a prominent hi

JESHUA; JESHUAH jesh'-u-a, je-shu'-a (yeshua`, "Yahweh is deliverance" or "opulence"; compare JOSHUA): (1) the King James Version "Jeshuah," head of the 9th course of priests, and possibly of "the house of Jeshua" (1 Chronicles 24:11; Ezra 2:36; Nehemiah 7:39). (2) A Levite of Hezekiah's time (2 Chronicles 31:15). (3) Son of Jozadak = Joshua the

JESHISHAI je-shish'-a-i (yeshishay, "aged"): A Gadite chief (and family?) (1 Chronicles 5:14). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESHISHAI'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESHER je'-sher (yesher, or yesher, "uprightness"): A son of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:18). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JESHER'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

JESHIMON je-she'-mon, jesh'-i-mon (ha-yeshimon, "the desert," and in the Revised Version (British and American) so translated but in the King James Version, Numbers 21:20; 23:28; 1 Samuel 23:19,24; 26:1,3, "Jeshimon" as a place-name. In Numbers, the Septuagint reads he eremos, "the desert"; in 1 Samuel, the Septuagint reads Iessaimon): In these pa

JESHARELAH jesh-a-re'-la (yesar'elah, meaning doubtful): One of the (or probably a family of) Levitical musicians (1 Chronicles 25:14), called "Asharelah" in verse 2. The names should be written "Asarelah" and "Jesarelah." Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for

JESHEBEAB je-sheb'-e-ab (yeshebh'abh, meaning uncertain): A Levite of the 14th course (1 Chronicles 24:13). Kittel and Gray (HPN, 24) read with Septuagint, A, "Ishbaal"; the name is omitted in Septuagint (Codex Vaticanus) and the change in Massoretic Text as well as the omission in Septuagint may be due to the word ba`al forming part of the name.

JESHAIAH je-sha'-ya, je-shi'-a (a) yesha`yahu; (b) yesha`yah, "deliverance of Yah"; (2) (3) below have form (a), the others form (b): (1) Son of Hananiah, and grandson of Zerubbabel, according to 1 Chronicles 3:21, the King James Version "Jesaiah." But commentators follow Hebrew (and the Revised Version margin) in the first part of the verse, a

JESHANAH jesh'-a-na, je-sha'-na (yeshanah): A town named with Bethel and Ephron among the places taken by Abijah from Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:19). Most scholars are agreed that the same name should be read instead of ha-shen, in 1 Samuel 7:12. It is probably identical with the Isanas, of Josephus (Ant., XIV, xv, 12). It is represented by the mod

JERUSALEM, 4 IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood, e.g. at el Bukei`a to the Southwest, and at the northern extremity of the Mount of Olives to the Northeast, were very large settlements of Paleolithic man, long before the dawn of history, as is pro