IZLIAH (.lij'^r, AV Jezliah).— A Benjamite, head of a ' father's house,' 1 Ch 8'*. See Genealogy.
IZRAHIAH (n;n-ii: 'J" will arise or shine').— A chief of the tribe of Issachar, 1 Ch 7' See GENE- ALOGY.
IZRAHITES (rrim).— GentUic name in 1 Ch 27', but sliould probably be read 'n-iv.^, which is possibly another form of 'rriicr Zerahites w."- ". See Genealogy.
IZRI (is:).— Chief of one of the Levitical choirs, 1 Ch 25", called in v.^ Zeri. See Genealogy.
IZZIAH (TV 'J" >vill sprinkle'?) AV Jeziah.- One of those who had married a foreign wife (Ez3 10-^), called ia 1 Es 9^ leddias. See Genealooy.
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J. — The symbol used by critics for the Jahwistic document. See Hexateuch.
JAAKAN.— SeeBEEROTH-BEN'K-jAAKAN.
JAAKOBAH (n;pjr).— A Simeonite prince, 1 Ch 4", See Genealogy.
JAALA (K^2- Neh 7") or JAALAH (nS;-: Ezr 2«). — Tlie name of a familj' of the ' sons of Solomons servants' who returned to Palestine with Zerub- babel. In 1 Ea S*" Jeeli. See Genealogy.
JAAR {in:). — Usually in OT a common noun, meaning forest or wooded height, e.g. Jos 17'^, Hos 2". Once only as projier name, KVm of I's 1.32» 'We found it in tlie held of Jaar.' Here, according' to some of the best authorities, it is a jioetical name for Kirialli-jearini, 'forest town.' cf. I's 78" 'field of Zoan.' Tlie name of this place ap|iears in several forms, see Jos lo'-"", 2 S 6", and in 1 Ch 13° an account is given of the bringing up of the ark from Kiriath-jearim, wliere it had lain for twenty years after its restoration by the I'hilis- tin<s. "file rendering of this obscure verse, — con- jectured to be a fragment of antique song, — which was lirst suggested bj' Kiihniil.and has been adopted by Uelitzscli, Perowne, and most moderns, would make it run thus: 'We heard of it (the ark) as I'ting at Ephrathah, we found it in the field of .laar [i.e. Kiriath-jearim).' Baethgen, however, iinderstands the word as an appellative, 'auf waldigem Gefilde ' (cf . LXX iv rats Saadji toO Spu/joC, Hnd Jerome 'in regione saltus'; so KV (text) 'in the field of the wood '), referring ' it ' to the oath of 1 lavid quoted in vv.'-', reailing ' published ' (mjusm) for ' found ' (.ii;nsc), and supposing the ' wooded tield ' to be a poetical designation of the country at large. Similarly Ew. (so Targ.), though he ex- plains the ' field of the wood ' of Lebanon as repre- senting N. Palestine. However, the general drift of the reference to the ark can hardly be mistaken.
W. T. Davison.
JAARE-OREGIM {c-j-in 'TJi; ; BA 'Apiapyd/i, other MSS 'Apupl ; sidtu,9 poli/mitarius), according to 2 S 21", a Beth-lehemite, the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath the Gittite. If is, however, highly probable that the text is coriupt, the former part of the name being a mistake for Jair ('H': for tv;), while the latter half (c':-in orcjri'm = weavers) luus been accidentally repeated from the following line. This view, which is supported by the parallel passage 1 Ch20°(lJer6 Ty;|3 = son of Jair; Kethibh iiv; 13), has been adopted by Thenius, Wellli., Driver, and Budde. Klostermann, following the reading of Lucian ('EXXavdi' viis 'laSotif vloO tou 'EXepil], prefers to restore ' the son of Dodai the Beth-lehemite' (-pn^n n'3 -I'll [?, cf. 2 S 23"). The
rendering of the ^esliitta (pCiCI .<=^ Vo jX)) probably points lo tiie same text as the Hebrew (omitting Jaurc,, tliough the Arabic, which is
based upon it, takes the second word (- °^ N^-ri - iloctus) as a proprr name (Malaph). Similarly the Targum of Jonathan hardly presupposes a dillercnt text, since its rendering 'and David the son of Jesse, the weaver of the veils of the Imuse of the sanctuary, wlio was of liethlehem, slew Goliath the Gittite ' (en'' r':cT ncnpo n'3 n'lnc -no t' i3 nn '■cpi nun'j n'Sj n'), is an obvio\is attempt at harmonizing the present text with 1 S 17. Jerome seems to
have read iy: = sa/<fw, instead of '-<z: (Jaare), and so far confirms the reading of 1 Cli 20*. For a further discussion of the relation of 1 Ch 20" to 1 S 17 and to 2 S 21"*, see Samuel (Books of), and Elhanan. J. K. Stennino.
JAARESHIAH (n;?'-!;-, perhaps = 'J" fattens,' AV Jaresiah). — A Benjamite chief, 1 Ch 8-''.
JAASIEL(Vri!'v:).— The 'ruler 'of Benjamin, ICh 27-', jiiob. = ' J. the Hezobaite ' (which see) of 11".
JAASU (is-i; Ezr 10" KctlUbh) or JAASAI CrJ.:. Kcre, so KVm), AV Jaasau. — One of tliose who had married foreign wives in the time ctf Ezra. LXX, regardless of the meaning, rendered xai iiroinaai' ('and they did '), i.e. li?;^:! for ii?i,:).
JAAZANIAH (in;jm: 2 K 25=», Ezk 8" ; .i.'W Jer 35^ Ezk 11', ' J"hear3.' See also Jezaniah. LXX 4 lv'2o-», B'OfoWas, A. Luc. 'UCoHas, Ezk 8" U', Jer 42^ [Heb. i-^'l B 'IfxoKlat).— I. A Judiean, styled 'son of the Maacathite,' one of the military com- manders who came to Mizpah to give in their allegiance to Gedaliah, the governor of Judali appointed by Nebuchadrezzar (2 K 2o^ = Jer 40* Jezaniah). After Ishmael, son of Kethaniah, had murdered Gedaliah, and carried ca|)tive rlie Juda'ans who were left at Mizpah, Jaazaniah, though not mentioned by name, appears to have joined with the other captains of tlie forces in giving battle to Ishmael and recovering the captives (Jer 41"*). Probably also he was one of those w ho determined, aj^ainst the advice of the prophet Jere- miah, to abandon the land of Judah, and to lead the remnant of the people down into Ejjypt (Jer 42).