Strong H3096יַ֫הַץה

Jahaz

Transliteration
yahats yahtsâh yahtsâh
Pronunciation
{yah'-hats} {yah'-tsaw} yah-tsaw'
Morphology
Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

From an unused root meaning to stamp; perhaps threshing floor;
Jahats or {Jahtsah} a place East of the Jordan: - {Jahaz} {Jahazah} Jahzah.

Meaning of the name

Jahaz or Jahazah or Jahzah = "trodden down"

Detailed definition

Jahaz (Jahzah), a Moabite town where the Israelites defeated Sihon and later allotted to Reuben.

In the biblical story

Jahaz

A town in Moab, site of Israelite victories

Jahaz (Jahzah), a Moabite town where the Israelites defeated Sihon and later allotted to Reuben.

In the Bible

Strong H3096 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • jahaz5
  • jahazah2
  • jahzah1
  • suburb1

First verses

  1. Numbers 21:23
    And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
  2. Deuteronomy 2:32
    Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
  3. Joshua 13:18
    And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
  4. Joshua 21:36
    And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
  5. Judges 11:20
    But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
  6. 1 Chronicles 6:78
    And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
  7. Isaiah 15:4
    And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
  8. Jeremiah 48:21
    And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
  9. Jeremiah 48:34
    From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
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