§ Jabesh = "dry" a town in the territory of Gilead; according to Eusebius, it is beyond the Jordan, 6 miles (10 km) from Pella, on the mountain road to Gerasa may be modern 'Wadi Yabes'
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H3003 — יָבֵשׁ
ya.vesh · Jabesh (Gilead) · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Judges 21:8 · מִיָּבֵ֥ישׁAnd they say, ‘Who is that one out of the tribes of Israel who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh?’ and lo, none hath come in unto the camp from Jabesh-Gilead—unto the assembly.Judges 21:9 · יָבֵ֥שׁAnd the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.Judges 21:10 · יָבֵ֤שׁAnd the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, ‘Go—and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.Judges 21:12 · יָבֵ֣ישׁAnd they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.Judges 21:14 · יָבֵ֣שׁand Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for all of them so.1 Samuel 11:1 · יָבֵ֣שׁ · יָבֵישׁ֙And Nahash the Ammonite cometh up, and encampeth against Jabesh-Gilead, and all the men of Jabesh say unto Nahash, ‘Make with us a covenant, and we serve thee.’1 Samuel 11:3 · יָבֵ֗ישׁAnd the elders of Jabesh say to him, ‘Let us alone seven days, and we send messengers into all the border of Israel: and if there is none saving us—then we have come out unto thee.’1 Samuel 11:5 · יָבֵֽישׁ׃and lo, Saul hath come after the herd out of the field, and Saul saith, ‘What—to the people, that they weep?’ and they recount to him the words of the men of Jabesh.1 Samuel 11:9 · יָבֵ֣ישׁ · יָבֵ֖ישׁAnd they say to the messengers who are coming, ‘Thus do ye say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead: To-morrow ye have safety—by the heat of the sun;’ and the messengers come and declare to the men of Jabesh, and they rejoice;1 Samuel 11:10 · יָבֵ֔ישׁand the men of Jabesh say to the Ammonites, ‘To-morrow we come out unto you, and ye have done to us according to all that is good in your eyes.’1 Samuel 31:11 · יָבֵ֣ישׁAnd they hear regarding it—the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead—that which the Philistines have done to Saul,1 Samuel 31:12 · יָבֵ֔שָׁהand all the men of valour arise, and go all the night, and take the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Beth-Shan, and come in to Jabesh, and burn them there,1 Samuel 31:13 · בְּיָבֵ֑שָׁהand they take their bones, and bury them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.2 Samuel 2:4 · יָבֵ֣ישׁAnd the men of Judah come, and anoint there David for king over the house of Judah; and they declare to David, saying, ‘The men of Jabesh-Gilead are they who buried Saul.’2 Samuel 2:5 · יָבֵ֣ישׁAnd David sendeth messengers unto the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and saith unto them, ‘Blessed are ye of Jehovah, in that ye have done this kindness with your lord, with Saul, that ye bury him.2 Samuel 21:12 · יָבֵ֣ישׁand David goeth and taketh the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the possessors of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-Shan, where the Philistines hanged them, in the day of the Philistines smiting Saul in Gilboa;2 Kings 15:10 · יָבֵ֔שׁAnd Shallum son of Jabesh conspireth against him, and smiteth him before the people, and putteth him to death, and reigneth in his stead.2 Kings 15:13 · יָבֵישׁ֙Shallum son of Jabesh hath reigned in the thirty and ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigneth a month of days in Samaria;2 Kings 15:14 · יָבֵ֖ישׁand go up doth Menahem son of Gadi from Tirzah and cometh in to Samaria, and smiteth Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and putteth him to death, and reigneth in his stead.1 Chronicles 10:11 · יָבֵ֣ישׁAnd all Jabesh-Gilead hear of all that the Philistines have done to Saul,1 Chronicles 10:12 · יָבֵ֑ישָׁה · בְּיָבֵ֔שׁand all the men of valour rise and bear away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and bring them in to Jabesh, and bury their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fast seven days.