The two names are often assumed to be alternative designations of one and the same singer. It may be so, but there are circumstances which render this explanation less satisfactorj- than it appears at first sight. Keasonable doubts have even been expre-i.sed whether J. was originally a proper name at all. The word occurs in the title of three psalms (39. 62. 77). In the hrst of these (unless \ De a scribal error for Sy) pnn-^ may be in apposi- tion with rjvy?'? (giving the sense of ' to the chief musician, namely to J.'), but in Ps 62 and 77 the reading is pnn;-'?;; (LXX ijirip '\oi8oOv) ' u/>on J.' (which, after the analogy of similar expressions in the headings of the Pss, most probably means 'upon an instrument named J.'), or as in RV ' n/ter the manner of J.' (where the last word would be the name of a tune or the opening word of a song). The whole subject of Heb. musical terms is so involved in obscurity that it is impossible to reach any certain conclusion. Seeing that the Sept. translators found many of these terms unintel- ligible, there is nothing improbable in the sup- position that the Chronicler writing about the same date (c. B.C. 250) adopted an interpretation which took J. for a proper name, an<l that he tiansformed it, like the more familiar Ueman and Ethan (which see), into the eponym of a Levitical choir. See Music.
LtTERiTVHK.— Gra(. Oa. B. d. AT 223, 239; W. K. Smith, OTJf 14311.; Kautzocti. Ufii. Sch. d. AT 716 n.; Cllevni:, Or. of Ptallrr, 101, 111 ; Ewald. Pmliru, Eng. tr. i. 44 ; Kucncn, liet. of Itr. ii. 204; Wellhauscn, Getch. 162 n. ; Schurer, UJ P IL L 226; KolJtrle, TempfUangtr im AT. J. A.. SELBIK.
JEELI (A 'levK B 'len,\el), 1 Es 6".— In Ezr 2« Jaalau, Neh 7" Jaala.
JEELUS (B 'Ur,\os, A 'MM, 1 Es 8" (LXX «•).— Ib Ezr 10^ Jebiel.
JEGAR-SAHADUTHA (K^-niqr ir, Aram. = ' cairn of witness,' LXX liouyis fiaprvs, DE, [ttjs] /Mafrrvpiat}. — The name said to have been given by Laban to the cairn erected on the occasion of the compact between him and Jacob, Gn 31". See (iALEED. The same Aram, root occurs in Job 16" ('"i"? ' my witness'). On the substitution of ^ for o see Dill- mann's note on this last passage.
JEHALLELEL (Sk^Kt)-— 1. A Judahite, 1 Ch 4". 2. A Levite, 2 Ch 29". See Genealogy.
JEHDEIAH (in-n; ' may J" give joy' !).-!. The ejionym of a Levitical family, 1 C;h 24*. 2. An olticer of David, 1 Ch 27". See Genealooy.
JEHEZKEL (Vftpm; 'God strengtheneth,' the same name as Ezei-icl). — A priest, the head of the 20th (in LXX, B, the 19th) course, 1 Ch 24".
JEHIAH (-i.'n; 'may J' live'!).— The name of a Levitical family, 1 Ch 16". See Genkalooy.
JEHIEL (^N-n; ' may El live ' I).— 1. One of David's chief musicians, 1 Ch 15'»-» 16». 2. A chief of the Levites, 1 Ch 2;j» 29». 3. Jehiel the son of Ilach- moni was 'with ( = tut<jr of?) the king's sons,' 1 CU 27". 4. One of Jehoshaphat's sons, 2 Ch 21'. 5. One of Ilezekiah's ' overseers," 2 Ch 31". 6. .\. ruler of the hou.se of (IimI in Josiali's reign, 2Ch 35'. 7. The father of Oluidiah, a returned exile, Ezr 8', called in 1 Es 8" Jezelus. 8. Father of Shecaniah, Ezr 10', called in 1 Es 8" Jeelus, i>erhaps identical with 9. One of tho.se who had married foreign wive.s, V./.T Ut*, called in 1 Es U" Jczrielus. 10. A priest of the w>n» of Uarim who had m.arried a foreign wife, Ezr 10", calleil in 1 Es tf" Uiereel. See Gk.neai.ooy.
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JEHIELI (•'-lifrf;). — A patronymic from Jehiel No. 2, 1 Ch 26-'- » (cf. 23* 29»).
JEHIZKIAH ('^'Pin; 'J' strengtheneth '). — An EphruimitP, in the time of Almz and Pekali, who Bupiiorted the ])roi>het Oded in oi>posing tlie bring- ing of Judiean captives to Samaria, 2 Ch iS""-.
JEHOADDAH (n^yVi;, possibly ' ,V hath deposed or halli naiubored'). — A descendant of Saul, 1 Ch 8". See Jarah.
JEHOADDAN (j-iv'in; 2 Chr 25' and, as voealizod, 2 K 14-. The consonant.s of the text in 2 K 14^ give the form Jehoaddin [so RV]prT). — A huly of Jerusalem, mother of Amaziah king of Judali.
JEHOAHAZ (tnx'i.i;, or Joahaz inxV 2 K 14', 2 Ch 34" ;{li- ■* 'J" hath ;;rasped ').--!. King of Israel, son of Jelui. His reign of seventeen years necessi- tales in 2 K 13' the reading 'one and twentieth' (Jos. AnC. IX. viii. 5), or in v.'" ' thirtyninih ' (Aldine LXX, and Thenius). The inroads of Hazael of Damascus, which Jehu could not resist (2 K 10^-), crushed Jehoaliaz. The straits to which he was reduced by the S3'rians (2 K l.'i'-^ 14:0. -.-7) led by the joung prince Henliadad (13'-^) imply that the terrible anticipations of Elisha (2 K 8'-) were being realized. These calamities were accom- panied bv a revival of the Asherah worship of Ahab (I3'«, cf. 1 K IG''). Nevertheless, at the king's prayer, J" promised Israel ' a 8a\-iour ' (cf. Jg 3" etc.), a promise not fulfilled in this reign (as Jos. Ant. IX. viii. 5, see v.-^), but in the vic- tories of Joash and Jeroboam II. (2 K 13^ 14'-'''), unless we suppose an allusion to the Assyrian king Rammfm-nirftri who captured and pluiiilered Damascus about this time (see Schrader, CUT i. 207).