BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3503
yit.ro — Jethro
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.2.18; father of: Zipporah (H6855) and Hobab (H2246); also called Reuel (KJV: Raguel) at Num.10.29; § Jethro = "his abundance" father-in-law of Moses; also 'Jether'
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7467
re.u.el — Reuel
A man of the Edomites living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.4; son of: Esau (H6215) and Mahalath (H4258); half-brother of: Eliphaz (H0464), Jeush (H3266), Jalam (H3281) and Korah (H7141); father of: Nahath (H5184), Zerah (H2226), Shammah (H8048) and Mizzah (H4199) § Reuel or Raguel = "friend of God" 1) a son of Esau by his wife Bashemath, the sister of Ishmael 2) the father-in-law of Moses 2a) also 'Jethro' 3) father of Eliasaph, the leader of the tribe of Gad at the time of the census at Sinai 4) a Benjamite, ancestor of Elah
10 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H460
el.ya.saph — Eliasaph
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.1.14; son of: Jethro (H3503); brother of: Zipporah (H6855) and Hobab (H2246) § Eliasaph = "God has added" 1) a Gadite chief in the wilderness census 2) a head of the Gershonites
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6855
tsip.po.rah — Zipporah
A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.2.21; daughter of: Jethro (H3503); sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872); mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H) § Zipporah = "bird" daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2246
cho.vav — Hobab
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.10.29; son of: Jethro (H3503); brother of: Zipporah (H6855) and Eliasaph (H0460) § Hobab = "cherished" the son of Reuel, the Midianite father-in-law of Moses, also known as Jethro, and brother-in-law of Moses
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →His excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro’s flocks. While the Israelites were encamped at Sinai, and soon after their victory over Amalek, Jethro came to meet Moses, bringing with him Zipporah and her two sons. They met at the “mount of God,” and “Moses told him all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh” (Ex. 18:8). On the following day Jethro, observing the multiplicity of the duties devolving on Moses, advised him to appoint subordinate judges, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, to decide smaller matters, leaving only the weightier matters to be referred to Moses, to be laid before the Lord. This advice Moses adopted (Ex. 18). He was also called Hobab (q.v.), which was probably his personal name, while Jethro was an official name. (See MOSES.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
