Dictionaries :: Jehoiarib

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehoiarib:

Jehovah defends, a priest at Jerusalem, head of one of the sacerdotal courses (1Ch 9:10; 24:7). His "course" went up from Babylon after the Exile (Ezr 2:36-39; Neh 7:39-42).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Jehoiarib:

fighting, or multiplying, of the Lord

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Jehoiarib:

je-hoi'-a-rib (yehoyaribh, "Yahweh pleads" or "contends"): A priest in Jerusalem (1Ch 9:10); the name occurs again in 1Ch 24:7 as the name of a family among. the 24 courses of priests = the family Joiarib (yoyaribh, same meaning as above, Ne 1:2,6), the head of which is Matrenai in Ne 12:19. In Ne 11:10 we should probably read ""Jedaiah and Joiarib" for "Jedaiah the son of Joiarib" (compare 1Ch 9:10). Jehoiarib = Joarib in 1 Macc 2:1.

Nave's Topical Bible

Jehoiarib: Two Priests Bearing the Same Name

1Ch 9:10; Neh 11:10; 1Ch 24:7

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jehoiarib:

(whom Jehovah defends) head of the first of the twenty‐four courses of priests (1 Chronicles 24:7).