Bible dictionaries

Jashub

What Bible dictionaries say about “Jashub”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Jashub - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Returner. (1.) The third of Issachar's four sons (1 Chr. 7:1); called also Job (Gen. 46:13).

(2.) Ezra 10:29.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

ja'-shub, jash'-ub (yashubh; yashibh, in Chronicles, but Qere, yashubh, "he returns"):

(1) In Nu 26:24; 1Ch 7:1, a "son" (clan) of Issachar. Ge 46:13 has incorrectly Iob, but Septuagint Jashub.

(2) In Ezr 10:29, one of those who had married foreign wives = "Jasubus" in 1 Esdras 9:30.

(3) In Isa 7:3, part of the name SHEAR-JASHUB (which see).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(he turns).
  1. The third son of Issachar, and founder of the family of the Jashubites. (Numbers 26;24; 1 Chronicles 7:1) (B.C. 1706.)
  2. One of the sons of Bani, who had to put away his foreign wife. (Ezra 10:29) (B.C. 459.)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith